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Indiana at the Fiftieth Anniversary 



OF THE 



BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 



REPORT 



OF THE 



Fiftieth Anniversary Commission, of the 
Battle of Gettysburg, of Indiana 



Pursuant to the Provisions of An A(5t of the General Assembly 
of the State of Indiana, Passed March 14, 1913 

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regiments from Indiana that participated in 

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PREFACE. 

A circular issued on the 13th of April, 19 13, by a com- 
mission created by an act of the Assembly of the common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, approved May 13, 1909, in which said 
commission styles itself the "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle 
of Gettysburg Commission," and which is made a part of this 
report, sets forth, in full, the plans of that commission for the 
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the great battle. It 
also contains the invitation of that commonwealth "to the Con- 
gress of the United States, and her Sister States and Com- 
monwealths to share in this important anniversary and help 
make it an event worthy of its historical signifance, and an 
occasion creditable and impressive to our great and re-united 
Nation." It is needless to recite that the State of Indiana ac- 
cepted the invitation, and, in every possible manner, endeavored 
to conform to the requirements of said circular. 

Our report sets forth Indiana's part, in the celebration of 
the anniversary, and, in the outset, we would emphasize the 
fact that the plans of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were 
fully carried out so far as they affected the State of Indiana. 
Our immediate contact with the Pennsylvania Commission, 
was through its efficient president, Colonel J. M. Schoon- 
maker, and its secretary, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis E. Beitler, 
and in the choice of such accomplished executives as these gen- 
tlemen, the commission as a body, indicated that it was com- 
posed throughout of very able executive talent. That com- 
mission, while reserving to itself, the supreme control of every- 
thing pertaining to the anniversary, wisely placed the prepara- 
tion of the great camp for the entertainment of 50,000 men, 
and the superintendency of the quartermasters and commissary 
service in the hands of accomplished officers of the United 
States Army. In this selection the Pennsylvania Commission 
manifested its uniform wisdom. The treatment of Indiana, at 



the hands of every agency employed to make our stay at 
Gettysburg pleasant, marks an epoch in each one of our lives, 
that will long be remembered by each one of us with supreme 
satisfaction. 

Major James E. Normyle, in charge of the Quartermas- 
ter's Department, and Major William R. Groves, in charge 
of the Commissary Department, supplemented by the officers 
and men of the Fifth United States Regular Infantry, under, 
whose immediate supervision Indiana's veterans were cared for 
during- their stay, aroused a feeling of admiration among our 
people, for those officers and men, which they carried back 
to their homes, as one of the most pleasing reminiscences of 
the great Anniversary. This commission was charged with 
the duty of taking over five hundred old men to Gettysburg, 
watching over them during their stay there, and seeing that 
they reached their homes in as good physical condition as 
when they went away. The management at Gettysburg did 
much to lighten this burden, and for this our commission 
feels very grateful. 

To your Excellency, who, from first to last, has been the 
friend of this movement, going with us to Gettysburg, stay- 
ing with us while there, coming home with us on our return, 
and thus making yourself thoroughly one of us, the commis- 
sion cannot adequately express its thanks. And to all the 
officers of your administration of State affairs, who encour- 
aged the movement, we are under special obligations. To the 
members of the General Assembly of our State, and especially 
to the Hon. Mr. Cook, Speaker, Hon. W. W. Spencer, floor 
leader, and the Hon. Mr. Franklin, all of the lower house, 
and to Lieutenant Governor O'Neil and Senators Wood and 
VanAuken, of the Senate, who gave their best endeavors 
towards securing the passage of the act, under which this com- 
mission acted, the whole State of Indiana is indebted for the 
wisdom of the legislation that enabled Indiana to do her part 



in this great Anniversary. 



W. N. PiCKERILL, 

Compiler and Editor. 




HON. SAMUEL, M. RALSTON 
Governor of Indiana 



Report of Commission. 



CHAPTER I. 



Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, Governor of the State of Indiana : 
Sir: — Under the provisions of an Act of the General 
Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 14, 1913, 
entitled, "An Act providing for the appointment of a Gettys- 
burg anniversary commission, prescribing the duties of such 
commission, and making an appropriation to defray certain 
expenses therein authorized," the Gettysburg Anniversary 
Commission begs leave to make the following report : 

The Act referred to is in the words and figures follow- 
ing: 

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Indiana, That the Governor of this State be and is 
hereby authorized to appoint a commission to be known and 
designated as the Gettysburg Anniversary Commission, to 
consist of the present commissioner, whose appointment was 
authorized by an Act entitled, "An Act providing for the par- 
ticipation of the State of Indiana, in the celebration of the 
fiftieth anniversaiy of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913, and 
for the appointment of a commissioner by the Governor, to 
superintend the preparation for the same and making the nec- 
essary appropriation therefor," approved March 6, 191 1, and 
in addition thereto one representative from each of the fol- 
lowing military organizations : The First Indiana Cavalry, 
Companies "I" and "K" ; the Third Indiana Cavalry; the 
Seventh Indiana Infantry ; the Fourteenth Indiana Infantry ; 
the Nineteenth Indiana Infantrv ; the Twentieth Indiana In- 



6 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

fantry, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry. Each such 
representative shall be a soldier who participated in the Battle 
of Gettysburg, and he shall be a resident of this State at the 
time of his appointment. The commission shall organize by 
the election of a president, secretary and a historian, chosen 
from their own membership. The commission shall at all 
times be subject to the direction and control of the Governor, 
to whom the commission shall report as often as required, and 
who shall have the power to remove any member for cause, 
and to fill all vacancies by appointment, as long as the com- 
mission shall continue. 

DOTY OF COMMISSION. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the commission to ascer- 
tain by diligent inquiry the name of each and every honor- 
ably discharged soldier, who served in either the Northern or 
the Southern army, or any sub-division or contingent thereof, 
at the Battle of Gettysburg, on July i, 2 or 3, 1863, and who 
is at the time when the contemplated celebration takes place, 
a resident of the State of Indiana. And for the purpose 
of accurately ascertaining the names of all regularly enlisted 
soldiers or officers who participated in said battle, or any en- 
gagement thereof, it shall be the duty of the commission to 
satisfy itself, by documentary proof, or otherwise, of the 
right of each and every soldier to avail himself of the bene- 
fits of this act, and who may make application therefor. And 
the commission is hereby authorized to use such means, and to 
call to their assistance such witnesses, and to use such evi- 
dence as may, in their best judgment, be necessary, to carry 
out the spirit and purpose of this act. And it shall be their 
further duty to make all necessary arrangements for, and to 
pay the transportation of all such soldiers to and from the 
battlefield of Gettysburg, and to look after their comfort and 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 7 

convenience while going thereto, returning therefrom, and 
while temporarily sojourning therein or thereabout. The com- 
mission shall have full charge and control of that portion of 
the camp or battlefield at Gettysburg which may be assigned 
to the State of Indiana, and, under the direction of the Na- 
tional Battle of Gettysburg Commission, they shall make such 
rules and regulations and issue such orders, from time to time, 
as they may deem fit and proper for its orderly government, 
and the welfare and comfort of the veterans encamped therein. 

INVITATION TO CITIZENS. 

Sec. 3. The commission shall have authority to invite 
such number of citizens of this State to attend the celebration 
as it may deem necessary to maintain the respect and dignity 
of the State. 

EXPENSES OF COMMISSION. 

Sec. 4. The members of the commission shall serve with- 
out pay, other than their actual necessary expenses incurred in 
the discharge of their duties, but all such expenses so incurred, 
aside from transporting and caring for the soldiers, as here- 
inbefore provided, shall be limited to two thousand five hun- 
dred ($2,500) dollars. 

APPROPRIATION. 

Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in 
the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, or as much thereof as 
may be necessar}^ to carry out the provisions of this act. 
All moneys expended shall be paid on warrants of the Auditor 
of State, drawn on the Treasurer of State, and all vouchers 
for such money shall state explicitly the object for which 



8 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

s. 

drawn, and shall be subject to approval by the Governor, or 
some person designated by him. 

EMERGENCY. 

Sec. 6. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate 
taking effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and 
effect from and after its passage. 

Pursuant to the provision of Section i of said act, the 
Governor of the State of Indiana issued commissions to the 
following named persons, who participated in the Battle of 
Gettysburg in July, 1863, and were survivors of the same and 
residing in this State : 

Chas. H. Noble, Companies I and K, First Indiana Cavalry. 

W. N. Pickerill, Third Indiana Cavalry. 

John V. Hadley, Seventh Indiana Infantry. 

David E. Beem, Fourteenth Indiana Infantry. 

Nelson Pegg, Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. 

William Emery Brown, Twentieth Indiana Infantry. 

W. W. Daugherty, Twenty-seventh Indiana infantry. 

As will be noted in the section of the act under which the 
foregoing commissioners were named, the commission was to 
consist of the persons named and also of the commissioner 
then acting, whose appointment had been authorized by "An 
Act providing for the participation of the State of Indiana in 
the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of 
Gettysburg in 191 3, and for the appointment of a commis- 
sioner by the Governor to superintend the preparation of the 
same and making the necessary appropriation therefor." 

Under the provisions of that act, Nathaniel D. Cox, of the 
Fourteenth Indiana, was appointed by Governor Thomas R. 
Marshall as commissioner, to represent this State in the con- 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 9 

ferences to be held by representatives of the United States, and 
other states and territories of the United States for the pur- 
pose of making suitable arrangements and preparations for 
the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of 
Gettysburg. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions 
of that act the General Assembly made an appropriation of 
one thousand dollars. Under the provisions of that act, the 
commissioner, Nathaniel D. Cox, met the commissioners of 
other states and territories, and of the United States at Gettys- 
burg in October, 191 1, to organize the Peace Jubilee of the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-2-3 
and 4, 1913, where it was decided that all surviving soldiers 
who fought on that field, on either side, from all the states 
and territories, should be the guests of the commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania. 

Subsequent conferences were held in Washington City, 
Philadelphia, and a final meeting of these commissioners was 
held at Gettysburg in May, 191 3, a short time preceding the 
anniversary to be held at Gettysburg. In all these conferences, 
Nathaniel D. Cox, the commissioner appointed by Governor 
Marshall, was present and taking part, and by virtue of the 
act under which he was appointed, his appointment was con- 
tinuous, and under the Act of 19 13, he became ex officio, a 
member of this commission and gave the commission the bene- 
fit of all information he had derived while acting with the 
general committee from the different states and territories, as 
to all preparations and arrangements, that had so far been 
made for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Bat- 
tle of Gettysburg. His knowledge acquired while he had been 
acting in the capacity of representative of this State made it 
eminently fitting that he should lead in the work our com- 
mission was called upon to perform. He laid before the mem- 
bers of the commission, the circular issued by the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, containing all necessary instructions 



lO INDl2\NA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, 1913 

for the veterans of the different states and territories, intend- 
ing to visit the Gettysburg anniversary, and this circular be- 
came so important in carrying out the work of the commis- 
sion, when organized, that we deem it proper to make it a part 
of this report. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 II 



CHAPTER 11. 



The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on Pennsylvania 
soil, and that great commonwealth was represented in the bat- 
tle by sixty-four regiments of infantry, six of cavalry, and five 
batteries of artillery. New York came next with fifty-seven 
regiments of infantry, six of cavalry and fifteen batteries of 
artillery. Those two states were represented by 135 out of 221 
regiments engaged in the battle, and twenty out of sixty-two 
batteries of artillery. 

Considering the location of the battle, and her representa- 
tion in the same, it was natural that Pennsylvania should have 
taken a leading part in all the preliminary and continuous 
work necessary to make a final success of the great celebra- 
tion. 

From the very inception of this movement Pennsylvania 
was true to her purpose, and the gratitude of Indiana, and the 
other states and territories of this Union, for all that was 
done for each of them, can hardly be adequately expressed in 
appropriate language. 

What Pennsylvania did, and how she did it, is best told in 
a letter reviewing her work, written at our request, by Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Lewis E. Beitler, the efficient secretary of the 
Pennsylvania Commission, which we here give in advance of 
the circular of April 5, 1913, which was controlling in all this 
commission did, on behalf of Indiana, in connection with the 
anniversary. 



12 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 

Harrisburg, November 13, 1913. 
W. N. Pickerill, Esq., Secretary, 

310-312 Unity Building, 
Indianapolis, Indiana. 
Dear Sir : — 

The pressure of official duties has prevented earlier re- 
ply to your request of the 30th ultimo, for a brief outline as 
to the above Celebration, and Pennsylvania's part therein. 

Complying, I beg to advise that early in 1908 General H. 
S. Huidekoper, a Philadelphian, who commanded the 150th 
P. V. Infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg, losing his arm 
there : and later, a committee of Gettysburg citizens, brought 
to the attention of our then Governor, Hon. Edwin S. Stuart, 
the approaching Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettys- 
burg, suggesting some fitting observance at Gettysburg of 
that event. The same meeting his hearty approval, he, in his 
January, 1909, Message to our General Assembly, stated "it 
would be entirely in keeping with the patriotic spirit of the 
people of the Commonwealth to properly recognize and fit- 
tingly observe that Anniversary," and recommended a Com- 
mission be created to arrange such Celebration, and to invite 
the co-operation of the United States Government and the 
other States. 

This recommendation resulted in a Legislative Act, ap- 
proved May 13, 1909, authorizing such Commission, of nine, 
to be appointed by tlie Governor, and making an appropriation 
of $5,000 for its preliminary expenses. The Governor imme- 
diately appointed such Commission, which organized with Gen- 
eral Louis Wagner, Chairman; and Captain and Rev. J. Rich- 
ards Boyle, Secretary ; and the Members, General William D. 
Dixon, Major R. Dale Benson, Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts, Ad- 
jutant William Penn Lloyd, Major Alexander McDowell, Mr. 
Trvin K. Campbell, and Mr. Lewis T. Brown, all Members of 
the G. A. R., General Wagner being its Senior Past Comman- 
der in Chief. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 I3 

This Commission at once invited the co-operation of the 
United States Government, and Congress responded by the 
appointment of a Special Committee on this Celebration, three 
Members from the Senate, and three from the House, with 
Senator George T. Oliver, of Pennsylvania, as Chairman, and 
Representative James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, a Gettysburg 
boy, as Vice-Chairman. 

The Commission likewise requested the Governor of each 
Commonwealth, State and Territory to appoint one Repre- 
sentative in each instance, and this was eventually complied 
with by every Governor, the District of Columbia also being 
so represented. 

A Conference was then called in October, 1910, at Gettys- 
burg, where some thirty Representatives met with the Pennsyl- 
vania Commission, as its guests, the result being that the Con- 
ference adjourned with each Representative requested to ad- 
vise the Pennsylvania Commission within thirty days, such 
general plan, as in his judgment, after consultation with his 
home people, he believed would most fittingly observe this 
Anniversary. 

These responses contained but few suggestions, the great 
majority of Representatives leaving the matter entirely to the 
Pennsylvania Commission, and it, in January, 191 1, reported 
a tentative programme to the Governor, which he that month 
transmitted to the Legislature, which endorsed such pro- 
gramme by appropriating $50,000 to further continue the 
work as therein outlined. Governor Stuart that month having 
been succeeded by our present Governor, Hon. John K. Tener, 
this action of the Legislature met his hearty approval, a pro- 
viso being added to the Bill, however, that the total expendi- 
ture by Pennsylvania should not exceed $250,000. 

In December, 1911, the writer was appointed Field Secre- 
tary, and visited in January, February and March, 19 12, all 
States whose Legislatures were then in Session, conferring 



14 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

with the Governor ; G. A. R. and U. C. V. officials, and others 
in interest, and addressing the Legislatures, presenting Penn- 
sylvania's invitation for their participation, and urging its ac- 
ceptance, with liberal appropriations to provide the transporta- 
tion for the Veterans of the respective States to and from 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania pledging on her part their entn-e 
entertainment at her expense while at Gettysburg. 

Meanwhile, conferring with the Congressional Commit- 
tee, a Resolution was introduced into the Senate, and concurred 
in by both Branches, authorizing and directing the War De- 
partment to make a preliminary survey and estimate of the 
expense that would be involved by the War Department create 
ing and maintaining at Gettysburg a Great Camp, in which 
to quarter and subsist 40,000 Veterans of the Civil War, that 
figure being at that time in the judgment of the Commission, 
the probable number of Veterans who would attend the Re- 
union. 

The War Department's estimate was $358,000, which in- 
cluded $70,000 for floors for each tent, but in view of the 
short time the tents were to be occupied, and the fact that 
it was in mid-summer and on excellent ground, the floors were 
abandoned, leaving the estimate $288,000, but which, to cover 
emergencies, was fixed at the round figures of $300,000, and a 
Bill was introduced by Senator Oliver authorizing and direct- 
ing the War Department to so create and maintain such Camp, 
and carrying an appropriation of $150,000, conditioned how- 
ever, that Pennsylvania should first turn over a like amount to 
the War Department, which, with this $300,000 total should 
then so proceed. 

This Bill was finally fought through both Branches of Con- 
gress, meeting President Taft's approval August 26, 19 12, 
though Pennsylvania's Legislature was not to meet again until 
January, 19 13, he believing Pennsylvania's word of honor was 
pledged, and that she would so appropriate the necessary $150,- 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 I5 

000, and this proved the case, Pennsylvania appropriating not 
only the $150,000, but in April and June of this year, made 
appropriations totalling $450,000, the War Department mean- 
while with the funds given it by the Pennsylvania Commission 
out of its first two appropriations (which totalled $55,000), 
inaugurated the work at Gettysburg, and in May, 191 3, the 
balance of the full amount of Pennsylvania's $150,000 was 
paid that Department, which then continued its work to the 
splendid completion witnessed at Gettysburg last July. 

Meanwhile, in the thirty-eight States whose Legislatures 
met in 19 13, a majority made appropriations to provide free 
transportation for their Veterans tO' and from Gettysburg, as 
requested by Pennsylvania in her invitation. 

Her invitation, however, was that each State should send 
to Pennsylvania all surviving Veterans of the Civil War resi- 
dent within such States. This some States did, others send- 
ing only Veterans of the Gettysburg Battle, and others, sur- 
vivors of the particular organizations that were engaged from 
that State in the Battle. 

Four Conferences between the Representatives from the 
several States to the Pennsylvania Commission, the Represen- 
tatives from the War Department, the G. A. R. and U. C. V. 
Committees, and the Pennsylvania Commission were held at 
Gettysburg in October, 1910, at Washington, in May, 191 2, 
at Philadelphia, in January, 1913, and at Gettysburg in May, 
19 1 3, all the Representatives so attending being the guests of 
the Pennsylvania Commission. 

Of the original Pennsylvania Commission, death has 
claimed three members — Mr. Lewis T. Brown, Adjutant Wil- 
liam Penn Lloyd, and Major Alexander McDowell, and three 
resigned — General Louis Wagner, Chairman, Captain J. Rich- 
ards Boyle, Secretary, and Colonel R. Dale Benson, and to fill 
these vacancies there have been appointed — Colonel J. M. 
Schoonmaker, now Chairman, Captain William J. Patterson, 
Captain William E. Miller, Captain George F. Baer, and Cap- 



l6 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

tain John P. Green, the writer as Secretary, and Mr. Samuel 
C. Todd, Treasurer. 

In June last, the advices from the several Commonwealths, 
States and Territories indicated some 48,000 Veterans would 
be in attendance at Gettysburg, and the War Department then 
served notice upon Pennsylvania, that their estimate was upon 
the basis of $300,000 for 40,000 Veterans, and that if Penn- 
sylvania had obligated herself by her invitations to entertain 
more than that number, all Veterans attending above that num- 
ber, must be so entertained at the sole expense of Pennsyl- 
vania, to which she agreed, and increased her appropriation, 
which at that time totalled $415,000, to $450,000. 

Now from the records so far received (nearly complete) 
from every reliable source available, it appears a total of 56.000 
such Veterans were present, 47,000 Union and 9,000 Confed- 
erate, the Union Veterans being more fortunate than the Con- 
federate, in that the Northern States were financially better 
able than the Southern States to furnish their Veterans free 
transportation, and another factor being that of course the 
Pennsylvania Veterans present — 21,000 — outnumbered those 
of any other State, this total, with New York's 9,000, being- 
over one-half of the grand total, and both these States fur- 
nished free transportation to all Veterans of the Civil War, 
both Blue and Gray, resident within their borders. 

This is as briefly as I can state Pennsylvania's share in the 
Great Reunion, and I trust it is in the manner you desire. But 
that you may have it more in detail, and see how, from its in- 
ception through the five years to its completion, our Commis- 
sion was continuously in touch with every interest involved, 
I enclose you copies of our several circular letters, reports, 
etcetera, issued during that period, particularly calling your 
attention to our Circular Letter of April 5, 1913. 

Yours very truly, 

Lewis E. Beitler, 

Secretary. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 1/ 

Room 509 Capitol, Harrisburg, April 5, 191 3. 
To the Veteran of the Civil War. 
Comrade : — 

Official detailed information concerning the above Cele- 
bration is here given in full, that such Veterans as Pennsyl- 
vania may have the honor of entertaining at Gettysburg at the 
Great Reunion may learn its general scope and plans and all 
arrangements, so far perfected, for their care, comfort and 
pleasure. Very respectfully yours, 

J. M. SCHOONMAKER, 

Lev^is E. Beitler, Chairman. 

Secretary. 

1. Inception — Pennsylvania, by Act of Assembly ap- 
proved May 13, 1909, created the above Commission 

" . . .to consider and arrange for a proper and 
fitting recognition and observance, at Gettysburg, of the 
fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg; with au- 
thority to invite the co-operation of the Congress of the 
United States, and of other States and Commonwealths," 

defined the Commission's duties and prerogatives and made 

an appropriation for preliminary expenses. 

2. Invitation — Pennsylvania, by its Commission that 
month formally invited the Congress of the United States and 
her Sister States and Commonwealths 

"to accept this invitation from the Commonwealth upon 
whose soil the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, to share 
in this important anniversary and to help to make it an 
event worthy of its historical significance, and an occasion 
creditable and impressive to our great and re-united Na- 
tion," 
and likewise invited the co-operation and participation of the 
Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Confederate 
Veterans. 

3. Acceptances — Congress, in June, 1910, under Concur- 



l8 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

rent Resolution created a Joint Special Committee of Congress 
on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg 

" . . .to confer with the Fiftieth Anniversary of 
the Battle of Gettysburg Commission of Pennsylvania and 
report as soon as may be, the recommendations of said 
committee as to the proper action to be taken by Congress 
to enable the United States fittingly to join in the cele- 
bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettys- 
burg" 
and every State, Commonv^^ealth and Territory, the District 
of Columbia, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska, by their re- 
spective Governors, accredited a Representative to the Penn- 
sylvania Commission, and both the Grand Army of the Re- 
public and the United Confederate Veterans appointed a Gen- 
eral Committee thereon respectively, all to so aid as above. 
(See complete list, paragraph i6.) 

4. General Conferences — Pennsylvania, in October, 1910, 
for the purpose of agreeing upon the general scope and plans 
of the Celebration invited and arranged for the first General 
Conference of her Commission, the Congressional Committee. 
Officers of the War Department, the Representatives to her 
Commission from the several Commonwealths, States and Ter- 
ritories, and the Chairmen of the G. A. R. and U. C. V. Com- 
mittees, at Gettysburg, Pa., followed in May, 191 2, and Jan- 
uary, 1913, by the Second and Third, at Washington, D. C, 
and Philadelphia, Pa., respectively, to be now followed within 
a month by the Fourth and final Conference at Gettysburg. 
Avhen all remaining details will be perfected. 

5. General Scope and Plans — At these General Confer- 
ences it was decided the Celebration shall be a Great Reunion 
at Gettysburg, Pa., from the North, South, East and West, 
of the Veterans of the Civil War, on July 1-2-3-4, 1913. 

6. Host — Pennsylvania — she providing all entertainment 
at Gettysburg during July i, 2, 3, and 4, 1913, for Forty 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 I9 

Thousand (40,000) "honorably discharged Veterans of the 
Civil War," and she and the National Government together, as 
provided by the Act of Congress of August 26, 1912, by each 
paying $150,000 for the War Department with the $300,000 
total, to create and maintain a great Camp around the Battle- 
field, complete in all its provisions of camp and garrison equip- 
ment, with all Quartermaster, Commissary, Hospital and other 
necessary supplies ample for such Forty Thousand (40,000) 
Veterans. 

7. Camp Accommodations — The Camp comprises some 
Two Hundred and Eighty (280) contiguous acres, starting 
about Two Hundred (200) yards from the High Water Mark 
Monument on the Battlefield, and lying to the southwest of 
the town and partly upon the scene of the first day's fight, 
consists of 5,000 tents, regularly holding twelve (12) men 
each, but now to hold but eight (8) Veterans, each Veteran 
being supplied with a separate cot, blanket and mess kit (the 
latter to become his property), each tent to contain also two 
(2) hand basins, one (i) water bucket and two (2) lanterns 
for candles, and candles for each. Towels, soap and other toilet 
articles must be provided by the Veteran himself. Meals to 
be served him at tables adjoining the kitchen at the end of each 
Company street. His baggage must not include any trunk, but 
must be restricted to hand baggage, only, the handling and 
care of which rests with him. To aid in prompt delivery, all 
mail matter and telegrams must not only be plainly addressed 
to the individual Veteran, but also must in addition state "Vet- 
eran with Maine Delegation" or "Mississippi Delegation," or 
whatever State delegation it may be. The Pennsylvania Com- 
mission having charge of the order of exercises during the 
Celebration; the physical control of the Camp and grounds 
and the movements of troops and marching bodies therein to 
be in charge of the Secretary of War, under such Officers as 
he may detail for that purpose. 



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^; Assignment to Camp Accommodations — Immediately 
upon a State, through its Representative to our Commission, 
advising us definitely how many Veterans will be present from 
that State as our Guests, the Pennsylvania Commission will 
assign to that State a section of the Camp with sufficient tents, 
all sub-divisions of these tents in such section to be made only 
by that State's Representative to our Commission, Pennsyl- 
vania making no assignments save to an entire State. 

9. When Camp Will he Opened and Closed — To avoid as 
far as possible congesting the railroads at Gettysburg in bring- 
ing and taking away our Guests, the Camp will be opened, in 
complete readiness for the reception of Veterans on Sunday, 
June 29, 1 91 3, the first meal to be served being Supper that 
evening, and will continue open until the following Sunday, 
July 6, 1913, the last meal to be served being Breakfast that 
morning, no one, under any circumstances whatsoever, being 
allowed in the Camp before nor after these dates. 

10. Entire Camp and All Arrangements for Veterans 
ONLY — Under the Acts of Assembly of Pennsylvania and 
of the Congress of the United States, only Veterans of the 
Civil War may be provided food, shelter and entertainment 
within the Great Camp around the Battlefield; therefore, no 
woman, nor child, nor any man not such Veteran, will be given 
such food, shelter or entertainment therein, and no Veteran 
accompanied at Gettysburg by a woman or child, or man not 
such Veteran, will be given any such food, shelter or enter- 
tainment therein for himself and them also, but only for him- 
self alone, the above laws so prohibiting, and therefore no 
sleeping, toilet, or other arrangements that would make it 
possible for women or children to sleep or be fed in the Camp 
have or will be made. Further, no Veteran should bring to 
Gettysburg any member of his family or other person for 
whom he will so have to obtain food and quarters outside the 
Camp, unless all arrangements therefor have first been made 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 21 

and secured by him for them before he or they come to 
Gettysburg. 

11. Necessary Credentials — To the end that this Great 
Reunion may be enjoyed to the full by only those for whom 
Pennsylvania and likewise the National Government and her 
Sister Commonwealths, States and Territories have intended 
and planned it, i. e., the known veteran of the Civil War, and 
only by him, Pennsylvania and the National Government, by 
the Officers there detailed for the purpose, and before any en- 
trance to or accommodations in the great Camp will be al- 
lowed or given, will exact an authentic Credential from each 
and Q\&xy individual Veteran showing him such to be, which 
must either be his Honorable Discharge, his Pension Certifi- 
cate or a Certificate of Service from either the Governor of his 
State in which he enlisted (or from the Officer the Govern- 
ment designates), or if he was a Regular, from the U. S. War 
Department, or, if he was a Sailor or Member of the Marine 
Corps, from the U. S. Navy Department, or a Certificate of 
Identification from a Commander of a Post of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, or from a Commander of a Camp of 
the United Confederate Veterans. 

12. Free Transportation to and from Gettysburg — With 
each Commonwealth, State and Territory rests absolutely the 
determination, as each deems best, to what Veterans of the 
Civil War it will issue free transportation, Pennsylvania's in- 
vitation being that to such "honorably discharged Veterans of 
the Civil War" as come to Gettysburg for the above Celebra- 
tion, either upon free transportation or at their own expense, 
and present proper Credentials proving them to be such Vet- 
erans, she will provide food, shelter, and entertainment during 
that period, but she furnishes free transportation to no one, 
save only to her own Veterans or Veterans now resident with- 
in her borders, and to them only under Legislative direction, 
which is now pending in her General Assembly, the National 
Government furnishing no free transportation at all. 



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13. Railroad Rates, Etc. — The Trunk Line Passenger 
Association in whose territory Gettysburg is, has granted a 
one and three-fifths round trip excursion rate, good going 
June 25th, and returning to original starting point by July 
1 5th, a 20-day ticket, good only on same route going and com- 
ing and costing 2c per mile, but each State must make its own.- 
arrangements with the similar Associations covering the ter- 
ritory from that State to Pennsylvania. The railroads at 
Gettysburg refuse, because of lack of room, to park or ac- 
commodate there any cars on side tracks. 

14. Programme of Exercises — The Programme for the 
four days' exercises and entertainment is not yet perfected in 
detail, but the tentative suggestions are : 

July I St — Veterans' Day: Appropriate exercises under the 
joint direction of the Pennsylvania Commission, and the Com- 
manders-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and the 
United Confederate Veterans. 

July 2. — Military Day : Under the direction of the Chief 
of Staff of the United States Army. Special detachments of 
each arm of the Regular Service to participate as directed. 

July 3d — Civic Day : Under the direction of the Governor 
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, presiding, and partici- 
pated in by the Governors of the several States. Orations, 
sermon and music. 

July 4th — National Day : The Chief Justice of the United 
States presiding. Forenoon, Oration by the President of the 
United States. High Noon, he to lay the cornerstone of a 
great Peace Memorial. Evening, Fireworks, 

15. Reunions — A great tent, seating between ten thou- 
sand (10,000) and fifteen thousand (15,000) Veterans, will 
be erected immediately adjoining the Camp, and therein will 
occur the above Exercises, excepting the Military Parade and 
Fireworks, and therein, save for the hours set apart for the 
above Exercises, the Veterans may hold all Reunions they may 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 23 

desire, the tent being arranged to be sub-divided into numer- 
ous separate enclosures. All such Organizations desiring to 
therein hold such Reunions must address, before June ist, 
"Lt. Col. Lewis E. Beitler, Secretary, Pennsylvania Gettys- 
burg Commission, Room No. 509, Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa.," 
stating explicitly the name of the Organization or Association, 
the day, date and hour reservation if desired, and, just as 
accurately as possible, the number of Veterans who will par- 
ticipate therein. All such Reunions therein will be allowed 
only after due and formal application is so made, and Official 
reservation is granted by letter to the proper officer of such 
Organization, after which official notices of the day, date and 
hour of the Reunion of the various Organization so granted 
will be posted on the Official Bulletin Boards throughout the 
Camp. All Veterans of the Civil War, North and South, are 
urged to wear their Army, Corps, Division, Brigade and So- 
ciety Badges, as a means of identification to their comrades 
in like commands, in the expectation that it will assist in im- 
parting information as to when and where their different or- 
ganizations meet, and in bringing together comrades who 
would otherwise, by reason of lapse of time, fail to recognize 
each other. 

16. Representatives to the Pennsylvania Commission — 
Appointed by the respective Governors of the several Common- 
wealths, States and Territories, to arrange all matters per- 
taining to the participation of their Veterans, and therefore the 
Veteran in these respective States is respectfully referred for 
any and all information concerning his State's arrangements 
to the following Representatives : 

STATES. 

Alabama — Hon. E. M. Byrne, Selma, Ala. 
Arizona — Wm. G. Hartranft, Esq., Phoeniz, Ariz. 
Arkansas — Maj. Gen. James F. Smith, Little Rock, Ark. 



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^ 

California — Gen. E. S. Salomon, Russ Building San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Colorado — Andrew J. Woodside, Esq., 1642 Ogden street, 
Denver, Colo. 

Connecticut — Hon. Thomas D. Bradstreet, Thomaston, 
Conn. 

Delaware — Sergt. Maj. Richard G. Buckingham, Chair- 
man, Newark, Del, 

Florida — Gen. E. M. Law, Bartow, Fla. 

Georgia — Gen. Andrew J. West, Atlanta National Bank 
Building, Atlanta, Ga. 

Idaho — Had none. 

Illinois — Capt. J. B. Greenhut, Sixth Avenue & i8th street. 
New York, N. Y. 

Indiana — Dr. Nathaniel D. Cox, Chairman, Spencer, Ind. 

Iowa — Lieut. Byron C. Ward, 1017 Ninth street, Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

Kansas — Hon. L. J. Mosher, Hiawatha, Kan. 

Kentucky — Col. Andrew Cowan, Chairman, 435 W. Main 
street, Louisville, Ky. 

Louisiana — Col. J. B. Sinnott, 510 Poydras street. New 
Orleans, La. 

Maine — Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Portland, Me. 

Maryland — Capt. John R. King, Chairman, 25 W. Mt. 
Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 

Massachusetts — Col. Edward O. Skelton, Chairman, Room 
No. 2^, State House, Boston, Mass. 

Michigan — Capt. John Allen Bigelow, Birmingham, Mich. 

Minnesota — Gen. Lewis A. Grant, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Mississippi — Col. W. A. Montgomery, Edwards, Miss. 

Missouri — Col. Thomas B. Rodgers, G. A. R. Headquar- 
ters, St. Louis, Mo. 

Montana — R. C. Wallace, Esq., Helena, Mont. 



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Nebraska — Col. Clarendon E. Adams, First National Bank, 
Superior, Neb. 

Nevada — Hon. H. F. Bartine, Carson City, Nevada. 

New Hampshire — Gen. J. N. Patterson — Concord, N. H. 

New Jersey — Col. Charles Burrows, Rutherford, N. J. 

New Mexico — Samuel Bushman, Jr., Esq., Gallup, N. M 

New York — Gen. Horatio C. King, Chairman, i East 
Ninth street. New York, N. Y. 

North Carolina — Sergt. John C. Scarborough, Winton, 
N. C. 

North Dakota — D. F. Seigfried, Lisbon, N. D. 

Ohio — Col. W. E. Haynes, Fremont, Ohio. 

Oklahoma — Hon. William Higgins, Bartlesville, Okla. 

Oregon — Col. Charles E. Morgan, Portland, Ore. 

Pennsylvania — The Pennsylvania Gettysburg Commission, 
Lieut. Col. Lewis E. Beitler, Secretary, Room 509, Capitol, 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

Rhode Island — Gen. Elisha H. Rhodes, City Hall, Provi- 
dence, R. L 

South Carolina — Hon. W. Jasper Talbert, Parksville, S. C. 

South Dakota — Capt. N. H. Kingman, Selby, S. D. 

Tennessee — Hon. Luke E. Wright, Memphis, Tenn. 

Texas — Gen. Felix H. Robertson, Crawford, Tex. 

Utah— Hon. L. H. Smyth, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Vermont — Col. Heman W. Allen, Chairman, Burlington, 
Vermont. 

Virginia — Gen. J. Thompson Brown, 11 13 E. Main street, 
Richmond, Va. 

Washington — W. H. Wiscombe, Esq., Port Orchard, 
Wash. 

West Virginia — Gen. Romeo H. Freer, Harris ville, W. Va. 

Wisconsin — Gen. Fred C. Winkler, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Wyoming — Gen. M. C. Barkwell, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



26 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

TERRITORIES. 

Alaska — Gen. William L. Distin, Juneau, Alaska. 

Hawaii — Hon. Sidney M. Ballou, 910 Colorado Building, 
Washington, D. C. 

Porto Rico— Dr. Martin G. Brumbough, City Hall, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. 

District of Columbia — Col. Thomas S. Hopkins, Hibbs 
Building, Washington, D. C. 

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 

Standing Committee on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 
Battle of Gettysburg. 
Hon. Ell Torrance, Chairman, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Gen. Daniel E. Sickels, New York City, N. Y. 
Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Brunswick, Me, 
Gen. James W. Latta, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gen. James H. Kidd, Ionia, Mich. 
Gen. Elisha H. Rhodes, Providence, R. I. 
Maj. John Bigelow, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Capt. E. R. Monfort, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Col. Charles A. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
Capt. David E. Beem, Spencer, Ind. 
Lieut. George W. Martin, Brookfield, Mo. 
Capt. Gilbert M. Woodward, La Crosse, Wis. 
Gen. Lester S. Wilson, Bozeman, Mont. 
Col. Charles H. McConnell, Chicago, 111. 

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 

Commission on Gettysburg Reunion. 
Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Chairman, Charleston, S. C. 
Col. W. W. Screws, Montgomery, Ala. 
Gen. Thomas Green, Sr., Pine Bluff, Ark. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, 1913 27 

Gen. A. D. Williams, Jacksonville, Fla. 
Col. George C. Norton, Louisville, Ky. 
Gen. T. W. Castleman, 202 New Court House Build 'ng, 
New Orleans, La. 

Hon. Randolph Barton, Baltimore, Md. 

Hon. T. E. Cooper, Jackson, Miss. 

Gen. J. William Towson, Shelbina, Mo. 

Hon. A. W. Graham, Oxford, N. C. 

Gen. John Threadgill, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Col. C. K. Henderson, Aiken, S. C. 

Col. S. A. Cunningham, Nashville, Tenn. 

Gen. Felix H. Robertson, Crawford, Tex. 

Gen. J. Thompson Brown, Richmond, Va. 

Col. R. Preston Chew, Charles Town, Jeff. Co., W. Va. 

J. P. Reins, Esq., Butte, Mont. 

Gen. W. C. Harrison, Los Angeles, Cal. 



28 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, 1913 



CHAPTER III. 



When members of the commission met pursuant to his call, 
at the State House, on the 9th of April, 191 3, for the purpose 
of organizing, after having severally taken the oath of office, 
the organization of the commission was completed by the elec- 
tion of Nathaniel D. Cox as president, W. N. Pickerill as sec- 
retary, and David E. Beem as historian. After organization, 
the commission at once entered upon the transaction of the 
business before it, looking to the carrying out of the provi- 
sions of the act under which it was created. 

Under the provisions of the act creating this commission, 
it was provided that "each and every honorably discharged 
soldier who served in either the Northern, or the Southern 
army, or any sub-division or contingent thereof, at the Battle 
of Gettysburg, on July ist, 2d or 3d, 1863, and who was, 
at the time when the contemplated celebration takes place, a 
resident of the State of Indiana, shall be entitled to the bene- 
fits of the provisions thereof." 

By means of printed notices, in various newspapers of the 
State, and circulars mailed to the various Grand Armp Posts 
of the State, the commission endeavored to ascertain the name 
and location of each veteran soldier in the State, who was 
entitled to the benefits of the provisions of the act. The no- 
tices sent out not only apprised the veterans of the provisions 
of the act, so far as our State was concerned, but 1,000 copies 
of a circular letter issued by the commission of the State of 
Pennsylvania, accompanied our notices, announcing that that 
State, in connection with the United States Government, would 
care for the veterans visiting Gettysburg for six days, begin- 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 29 

ning with the afternoon of June 29, 19 13, said circular pre- 
scribing the conditions under which the veterans would be re- 
ceived and cared for while at Gettysburg. In answer to the 
information sent out by the commission, several hundred vet- 
erans residing in various parts of the State, sent in their names, 
giving their companies and regiments, and claiming the bene- 
fits of the provisions of the act. These names were duly tab- 
ulated, after which the commission forwarded to each appli- 
cant for transportation a prescribed form, to be executed be- 
fore an officer authorized to administer oaths, in which the ap- 
plicant was identified with such particularity as to preclude 
the possibility of imposition upon the commission. The re- 
ceipt of these applications, when executed, and sent in, were 
duly acknowledged by the secretary, placed upon file, and after 
arrangements were made with the railroads for the transpor- 
tation of our veterans to Gettysburg and return had been con- 
cluded, each applicant, whose application had been passed upon 
favorably by the commission, was forwarded a certificate, 
signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of 
the commission, which entitled him to transportation when 
presented at the railroad point designated to Gettysburg and 
return. 

It was the aim of the commission, in every instance, to 
name as the point of departure and return from Gettysburg, 
the nearest railroad station to the veteran's home, but in a num- 
ber of instances, the veterans were at some expense in reaching 
these designated stations. The commission regarded this extra 
expense as a part of the expenses of their necessary transpor- 
tation to and from Gettysburg, and allowed it to the veteran, 
in each instance, when made known to us. 

Of the applications for transportation sent in by veterans 
residing in the State of Indiana, 552 were passed upon favor- 
ably by the commission, of which number 57 were veterans of 
the Southern Army, and 495 of the Northern Army. The 57 



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veterans of the Southern Army represented 49 different or- 
ganizations of the army, and the Southern states represented 
were Virginia, North CaroHna, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. 
Of veterans belonging to the Northern Army, 280 were mem- 
bers of Indiana regiments that participated in the Battle of 
Gettysburg, and 215 were veterans from other Northern states, 
who participated in the battle, but resided in this State at the 
time of the passage of the act by which we were governed. Of 
these 53 were from Pennsylvania, 31 from Ohio, 28 from New 
York, 13 from Michigan, 6 from Illinois, 5 from Massachu- 
setts, 4 from New Jersey, 4 from Maryland, 4 from West Vir- 
ginia, 3 from Vermont, and 27 from the United States Army. 
There was one each from Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island 
and Wisconsin. 

While these applications for transportation were coming in, 
it was deemed important to begin the necessary preparation 
for transporting our veterans to Gettysburg, and W. W. 
Daugherty, W. N. Pickerill and Charles N. Noble were ap- 
pointed a committee to look after, and contract for the neces- 
sary transportation, with the railroad lines that should be 
chosen for that purpose. This committee invited the represen- 
tatives of the various railroad lines in Indiana, and those lead- 
ing to Gettysburg, to meet with it, and confer as to their re- 
spective facilities for handling our veterans, and they did. All 
the railroads were governed by the rules of their traffic asso- 
ciation, and there was no question of rates for the committee 
to consider. It was plain two cents per mile, on every road 
likely to be used, and all they could charge under the statutes 
of the different states through which they passed, and the main 
task of the railroads seemed to be to figure out the number of 
miles the veterans would likely travel from the various points 
in the State, from which they would start on the trip. 

The committee selected the New York Central Railroad 
from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, the Baltimore & Ohio from 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 3 1 

that point to Cumberland, Md., and the Western Maryland 
from Cumberland to Gettysburg, as the most feasible route, 
the return trip to be over the same lines. These selected lines, 
after long deliberation, furnished the committee a schedule of 
rates from various points in the State, from which the veterans 
would start on the trip, and the lines it would be necessary to 
travel over in reaching the lines selected for the trip, and the 
committee, under its instructions from the commission, began 
to send out transportation to our veterans in such form that 
only those to whom the same was issued could use it, and the 
railroad office issuing the ticket was required to give the vet- 
eran, to whom it had issued a ticket, a receipt showing that his 
order for transportation had been presented, and honored by 
issuing the veteran a ticket for his transportation to Gettys- 
burg and return to the point at which the ticket was issued. 

For various reasons, quite a number of veterans to whom 
transportation had been issued, did not use the same, and 73 
orders for transportation were returned to the secretary of the. 
commission, as had been provided in the contract for trans- 
portation between each veteran to whom the same was issued, 
and the commission. But our records show that a number of 
these orders for transportation have not been returned, but 
retained by the parties to whom issued. Of course, these or- 
ders are valueless in any one's hands, and as the railroad lines 
issued no transportation upon them, of course the fund appro- 
priated by our State suffered no reduction by these unused 
orders for transportation. 

Under the provisions of Section 3 of the act authorizing 
the commission to invite citizens of the State, whose attend- 
ance at Gettysburg would maintain the dignity of the State, 
transportation was issued to thirty invited guests, who accom- 
panied the veterans to Gettysburg, and remained with them 
Avhile there. It was found that this action was in keeping with 
the course pursued by all the other states represented at this 



32 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 

great anniversary occasion. Governors of at least twenty 
different states, and their suits, were in attendance, and formed 
an important feature of the great occasion. The management 
of the anniversary had set aside a day in their programme, 
designated as "Governors' Day," and the day was duly honored 
by a great gathering of visitors in a large tent, capable of 
holding ten thousand people and located on the southeast part 
of the field, Vi^here the veterans were camped in tents. On this 
day and at this meeting the governors of most of the states 
represented made addresses that reflected great credit upon 
their several states, and attracted wide interest throughout the 
country. Governor Ralston, of Indiana, spoke as follows : 

ADDRESS BY SAMUEL M. RALSTON, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA. 

Mr. Chairman, Survivors of the Battle of Gettysburg, and 
Fellow Citizens : 

I have been admonished that I am to speak but two minutes 
to you, but I am glad of the opportunity to address a word of 
greeting for even two minutes to this magnificent assembly of 
American citizens. 

I hail from a State of Vice-Presidents (looking at Vice- 
President Marshall). I hail from a State that gave to this 
Republic one of its really great Presidents, in the person of 
Benjamin Harrison. I hail from a State that furnishes as 
brave and courageous soldiers to fight the battles of their 
country as any State in the Union. 

As I said yesterday, more than five hundred of those In- 
diana soldiers are here on this occasion, but they are not here 
to boast of possessing virtue superior to the virtues of others 
who participated in this great conflict. They are not here to 
compare notes to determine which had the greater endurance, 
but they are here to enter into a friendly rivalry to do more in 
the future if they can, than any other State in the Union, to 
make this a better government. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 33 

I came here, I think, a good American, but God knows I 
shall return from this immortal battlefield a better American 
than I had ever expected to be. I knew something of the his- 
tory of the battle fought here, of course, but I never as fully 
appreciated it and as fully understood it as I have been able to 
do during the past three days in going over these once bloody 
fields in company with the old soldiers. 

My countrymen, we have the best government in the world. 
This great gathering will make it a better one still. I want to 
see it become so good, that every man can look upon it and 
behold it, not as his master, but as his servant. I want it to be 
so good, that every man in it will be recognized as the brother 
of every other man under the flag. I want tranquility to be 
everywhere in evidence. I want it to be so good, that peace 
will brood over the entire land. I want the spirit of brother- 
hood to flow on and on without running counter, my country- 
men, at any time, to the eternal laws of truth and justice. 

The veterans from Indiana, and their friends, felt that our 
State was fittingly represented, and highly honored, by the 
above eloquent and patriotic address of our Governor on this 
occasion, and that she took rank with the other great com- 
monwealths represented there. 

The feeble conditon of many of the aged veterans who ac- 
companied the Indiana contingent to Gettysburg, prompted the 
commission to employ two physicians and a corps of nurses and 
attendants, to accompany the party, and owing to the intense 
heat of the time selected and the strain of the trip upon many 
of them, this was found to have been a wise precaution. 

The trip to Gettysburg was begun on the 28th of June, 
1913, and over the various railroad lines in the State concen- 
trating at Cincinnati. Most of those who were to accom- 
pany the expedition arrived in the latter city in the late after- 
noon of the day upon which the start w^as made, and all ar- 



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rived without mishap, at Cumberland, Md., on the morning of 
the 29th. Here over five hundred veterans from Indiana were 
furnished a splendid breakfast, which the commission had 
caused to be prepared in advance. 

The train carrying the Indiana party ran in two sections, 
arriving at Gettysburg on the afternoon of the 29th, and the 
veterans were at once assigned to the quarters in waiting for 
them, consisting of 74 government tents of the latest and most 
approved pattern, each equipped with eight cots, two blankets to 
the cot, and various camp utensils calculated to make their 
brief camp life as nearly like their home life as it was possible 
to make it. 

The great and generous Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
as a preliminary to this anniversary, had leased a 275-acre 
farm at the northwest corner of Gettysburg, about every acre 
of which had been fought over by many of the veterans fifty 
years before, and upon this ground, tents, all of one pattern, 
had been arranged, by the officers and men of the Fifth United 
States Infantry, in streets numbered from one to forty-seven, 
and capable of accommodating fifty thousand men. The camp 
lay between the Emmittsburg pike, famous in the history of the 
great conflict, and Confederate Avenue, a magnificent seven- 
mile highway, constructed by the United States Government 
since the battle. The camps of the veterans coming from the 
Southern states, who formed the Army of Northern Virginia, 
that fought there, were appropriately located along this ave- 
nue. North of this avenue, and extending to Seminary Ridge, 
another location of historic interest, were located the tents, 
by streets, that accommodated the veterans of the Army of the 
Potomac, which had here met the Army of Northern Virginia. 

The veterans from Indiana soon learned after their ar- 
rival in camp, that nothing had been neglected by the great 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to make them comfortable 
during the time they were to remain the guests of that gener- 
ous commonwealth. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 35 

A complete cooking outfit, in charge of experienced cooks, 
had been installed in each street, for the accommodation of 
the veterans occupying that particular street, and tables with 
bench seats capable of seating fifty persons, were there for the 
use of those who did not prefer to carry their food to their 
tents. Soon after their arrival the veterans were called upon 
to partake of a splendid supper, prepared for them in ad- 
vance, well calculated to satisfy the wants of travel worn and 
hungry men. The great camp was suppHed with splendid 
water, drawn from a number of deep wells, that had been 
sunk in various parts of the camp, raised into immense tanks, 
and piped throughout the camp. 

Large underground reservoirs had also been excavated, 
into which tons of ice were dumped, and pipes leading through 
these ice filled reservoirs furnished the veterans an abundance 
of ice-cold drinking water, something very satisfying in a tem- 
perature of ninety degrees. All garbage was burned, the 
closets cleaned each night, while the veterans were sleeping, 
and the entire camp was kept in the highest sanitary condi- 
tion, from first to last. 

Each street of the camp was supplied with telephones, that 
made communication with the hospitals, and medical depart- 
ment, instantaneous in case of sickness among the aged vet- 
erans, and this was frequently occurring, while the entire camp 
was lighted at night with electric lights, and surrounded by 
guards of regular army soldiers, and Pennsylvania militia. 

For six days the veterans were furnished with three well- 
cooked and substantial meals of good, wholesome food, and a 
menu of these meals had been printed by the management, so 
that each man knew what he was going to have for break- 
fast, dinner and supper. 

In the preparation for the care of the infirm, disabled and 
sick, Pennsylvania had neglected nothing. Boy Scouts were 
scattered throughout the camp, and were constantly on the 



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alert and ready to notify the medical authorities that their at- 
tention was required. There were numerous stations scat- 
tered throughout the camp where the slightly afflicted could 
receive prompt attention, and when more was required, those 
requiring attention were registered at these smaller stations, 
and hurried off in ambulances to one of three great hospitals, 
that had been provided, where every facility for caring for and 
nursing the sick and disabled was in waiting. So complete 
had been the arrangement of this important feature of the 
great entertainment, that but seven men out of fifty thousand 
died during their attendance at the anniversary. A number 
of our feeble veterans received attention in these hospitals, 
and every one of them united in praise of the care and atten- 
tion they had received while in these hospitals. But one man 
of the more than five hundred going from Indiana, died dur- 
ing the trip, and James H. Richardson, of the Fourteenth In- 
diana Infantry, died in the Good Samaritan Hospital at Cin- 
cinnati on the way home, having in some manner wandered 
away from our returning train at that point, and became lost. 
He was picked up in the streets of that city by the authorities, 
and cared for in the above named hospital, where he died. 
The commission caused his remains to be sent to Gosport, Ind., 
as desired by his family, where he was buried, more than fifty- 
two years after enlisting at that place. 

The veterans from Indiana who had been members of the 
different regiments that had participated in the battle from this 
State, were assigned to tents according to their regiments, and 
those from other states were assigned to tents according to 
their states, and the same plan was pursued in assigning the 
veterans of the Southern Army, and of the United States 
Army. 

By pursuing this course. Street No. 35. that had been as- 
signed to Indiana, had twelve happy families of re-united vet- 
erans, who had known much of each other during the great 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 37 

war, and some of them had not met in the intervening fifty 
years, since Gettysburg of 1863. For our men it was one glo- 
rious six days' reunion, without care or worry, and to many it 
was Hke the renewal of youth out of the long gone past. 

Our veterans passed the six days of camp life going over 
the historic battlefield, visiting the places where they had 
fought, attending regimental reunions of their own, and other 
regiments, visiting comrades and friends from other states, and 
Southern veterans encamped upon the same field. The entire 
six days and nights were just one glad and joyful season of 
forgetfulness of the trials and hardships of the past, and given 
over to that communion which made the best of friends of for- 
mer enemies, and good friends better friends than they had 
ever been before. State lines were forgotten, and the men of 
the North, and the men of the South here clasped hands, after 
a manner calculated to cement friendship forever. That each 
veteran took away with him a story that when told in the home 
he had left behind, wherever that home may be, will soften 
asperities that may have dwelt there before, and redound to the 
glory and greatness of all of our country. 

The great tent on the southeast portion of the camp, herein- 
before referred to, was the point at which the many gather- 
ings of the veterans and their friends were held. These gath- 
erings were always of interest to some portion of the men oc- 
cupying the camp. Indiana's invited guests were entertained 
in the City Hotel of Gettysburg, but they passed much of the 
time with the veterans in camp, or going over the battlefield 
with some of them. 

The management had arranged a programme, in which 
the great tent was kept occupied every day and night, from 
early morning until late at night. The forenoon of July 2d 
was set apart as Indiana Day, and pursuant to announcement, 
the contingent from Indiana were present at this meeting. And 
such deep interest was manifested in the occasion that it seems 



38 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

fitting that the addresses made there should form a part of 
this report. The meeting was presided over by Hon. John V. 
Hadley, a member of the commission, and an Officer of the 
Seventh Indiana Infantry, and a veteran who, with his regi- 
ment, had participated in the Battle of Gettysburg during the 
four days of the engagement. In felicitous vein, Mr. Hadley 
stated the object of the meeting, and introduced the president 
of the commission, Nathaniel D. Cox, who delivered the fol- 
lowing address pertinent to the occasion. 

"Fifty years ago two great armies, the Army of the Po- 
tomac, and the Army of Northern Virginia, fought for three 
days on this battlefield. Here, on this soil, more lives were lost 
than in any other battle of modern times. Here, a great people 
of the same blood and kindred, met each other in deadly con- 
flict, all believing their cause was right and just, and were 
brave enough to fight and die for that cause. 

"The National Government and the several states, whose 
soldiers fought on this field, have adorned it with magnificent 
monuments, statues, memorials, tablets, observatories and 
driveways ; so it is the most beautiful battlefield park in the 
world. 

"For four years the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on 
whose soil this battle was fought, through her governors, leg- 
islators and citizens, has been making arrangements and per- 
fecting plans to hold a National celebration at the Fiftieth An- 
niversary, by inviting all the surviving soldiers who fought on 
this field (Federal and Confederate), as well as all surviving 
soldiers of the Civil War, of all the states and territories, to be 
her gfuests and celebrate a peace jubilee — the whole Nation 
rejoicing together, that we are a united, happy and prosperous 
people, and to lay the foundation for a Peace Monument on 
this historic field. 

"Pennsylvania has appropriated almost a half million dol- 
lars for this great occasion, and the National Government, 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 39 

through the Congress, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
to establish a great camp for the care and comfort of the 
veterans while here. 

"Indiana gladly accepted Pennsylvania's invitation to join 
in this National gathering for peace and good will, and the 
Legislature of our great State appropriated twenty thousand 
dollars to transport, free of all charge, the surviving soldiers, 
both Blue and Gray, residents of Indiana, who fought on this 
field. The Gettysburg commission and soldiers of Indiana, in 
this public manner, desire to express to our Governor, officers 
and members of the Legislature, as well as to the citizens of 
this State, our gratitude for having thus made it possible for 
the survivors of this battle to again assemble together, not for 
war, but for peace. We rejoice that we are now one people, 
united under one flag — the flag of our whole country — and 
that we have already beaten our swords into plow-shares, and 
our spears into pruning hooks, and that as long as time shall 
last, we shall learn war no more. 

"Comrades and friends, these splendid statues of marble 
and granite and bronze shall finally crumble to dust, and in 
the ages to come, will perhaps be forgotten, but the spirit that 
has called this great assembly of our people together, on this 
field, shall live forever. It is a celebration of the song that was 
sung two thousand years ago : 'Peace on earth, good will to 
men.' There is no record in all history, where half a century 
afterwards, the survivors of opposing armies met on the same 
field in friendship, affection and brotherly love, rejoicing with 
each other, that peace has already come to our beloved land. 
That great patriot who loved his country and his fellow man, 
who stood on these hills a half centuty ago, and dedicated this 
hallowed ground in simple language that will live forever, had 
a vision of this scene, when he uttered these prophetic words, 
'This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, 
and that government of the people, by the people, and for the 
people, shall not perish from the earth.' " 



40 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

This was followed by patriotic songs, led by the splendid 
voices of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Jones, of Indiana, and an elo- 
quent introduction by the presiding officer of Hon. Samuel M. 
Ralston, Governor of Indiana, who spoke as follovv^s : 

"Fellow Citizens : — 

"The exiled Hebrew afforded the world an inspiring lesson 
in patriotism, when from the depths of his soul he cried aloud, 

'Upon the ruins of Babylon we sat and wept, when we remem- 
bered Zion. 

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her 
cunning. 

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not re- 
member thee. 

If I do not make Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.' 

"Lacking in patriotism, indeed, is he who, standing on this 
historic spot, where American heroism engaged in a deadly 
conflict with itself, does not cry unto the Infinite, that the 
American Republic, made indissoluble by American blood, shall 
be the beginning of his joy, the renewing of his faith, and the 
strengthening of his devotion. 

"This event, my countrymen, is unique in the annals of 
time. Nothing comparable to it has preceded it in all the 
ages, and Indiana, therefore, makes public expression of her 
appreciation of the efforts made and the burdens assumed by 
those who have given so freely of their time and money to 
make possible this reunion of the Blue and the Gray. The 
Federal Government has recognized the importance of this oc- 
casion, and Indiana endorses the steps it has taken to make 
this meeting a success. The battle fought here — the bloodiest 
three days' contest in all warfare — has made Pennsylvania 
celebrated as the scene of matchless bravery, and coupled her 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 4I 

name with centuries to come. All honor to the Keystone State 
for her great contribution of money and moral purpose to de- 
fray the expenses of this meeting, and the conspicuous part 
she has played in making this event the symbol of the Re- 
public's desire for peace universal. 

"But Pennsylvania does not, Pennsylvania never will re- 
gret her contribution for the success of this reunion. If it 
were possible to shift to another State the place of the battle 
here fought between the sons of the North, and the sons of 
the South, the wealth of the world would not tempt Penn- 
sylvania to surrender the site, to give up the historic interest 
and to forget the impressive lesson and the sad, sweet memo- 
ries that cling about the Battle of Gettysburg. There are 
some things yet in this old world, thank God, whose value can 
not be measured by the dollar sign, 

"I dare not, of course, take the time to recall the details 
of this battle, or rehearse at length the part Indiana alone had 
in it; yet on an occasion like this, I feel I would not be justi- 
fied in failing to recite some of the incidents of the struggle. 
For the facts I state in this connection, I am largely indebted 
to Mr. W. N. Pickerill, of the Third Indiana Cavalry, who par- 
ticipated in this battle. 

"General Meade was at the head of the Union forces, and 
General Lee had charge of the Confederate army. The two 
armies had about 100,000 men each, and their several camps 
were within an area of fifty square miles, a day or two before 
the battle. General Reynolds commanded the left wing of the 
Federal army, which included the First, Third and Eleventh 
army corps, and General Buford's Division of Cavalry. The 
First brigade of this cavalry division was commanded by Col- 
onel Gamble, of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and in this brigade 
were six companies of the Third Indiana Cavalry, and fouf 
companies of the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, all under the com- 
mand of Colonel George H. Chapman, of Indiana. 



42 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

"On the morning of June 30th General Buford, encamped 
near Emmittsburg, was ordered with two of his brigades to 
go to Gettysburg. Colonel Gamble, commanding the first 
brigade, was in the advance. The brigade consisted of Col- 
onel Gamble's own regiment, the Eighth Illinois, the Third 
Indiana, Twelfth Illinois, and Eighth New York, commanded 
by Lieutenant-Colonel Markell, and Tidball's Battery of the 
United States Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant John H. 
Calef, a young officer just out of West Point. 

"About noon Sergeant Henry B. Sparks, in charge of a 
small squad of Company C, Third Indiana, dashed into Gettys- 
burg at a gallop, and made prisoners of several Confederate sol- 
diers, who seemed to be straggling through the streets and 
mingling with the citizens. Soon thereafter General Buford, 
with the remainder of the division, arrived and took possession 
of the town. 

"At the same time, General Pettigrew, of Hill's Confed- 
erate Corps, was on his way to Gettysburg from Cashtown, 
for supplies. When he saw that the Federal Cavalry was in 
control of the town, he hastened back to Cashtown, placing 
pickets a few miles out on the road whence he had come. In- 
diana boys did picket duty that same night on that same 
road ; and it should not be forgotten that Indiana soldiers were 
the first to enter the streets of Gettysburg, and the first to 
occupy Gulp's Hill. 

"On Pettigrew's report to headquarters. General Heth, his 
division commander, was ordered to take his division to Gettys- 
burg at 5 o'clock the next morning, July ist, to reconnoitre. 
Company A, Third Indiana Cavalry, on picket duty, was the 
first to know of Heth's approach. With this knowledge to 
act upon. General Buford ordered Colonel Gamble's brigade, 
1,600 strong, with his battery, to go out, meet and entertain 
the Confederates under General Heth until General Reynolds 
could arrive. 

"Gamble met the enemy, Archer's and Davis's brigades, at 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 43 

Willoughby Run, about 8 a. m., with Pettigrew's and Brocken- 
brough's and other Confederate forces behind them. Colonel 
Devin, with the second brigade of Buford's Cavalry, sup- 
ported Gamble in a two hours' fight, in which the Federal Cav- 
alry was driven back 200 yards, still fighting. The first Fed- 
eral infantry to arrive were two brigades of General Wads- 
worth's division of the First army corps, General Cutler's 
brigade and General Sol Meredith's brigade of Indiana. These 
troops got into the battle about 10 a. m., and at the first volley 
from Archer's brigade General Reynolds fell mortally wound- 
ed. Two entire corps of each army were soon engaged in a 
great conflict. The losses of the first day's fighting were ter- 
rific on both sides. The Federals were defeated, and the army 
of Lee was victorious. The former were discouraged and the 
latter elated. 

"The coming of Meade, the new Federal commander, and 
of reinforcements that night, changed the prospect, however; 
and the second day's fighting, which did not begin until 3 
o'clock in the afternoon, lasted until 9 o'clock that night. In 
this day's fight. General Sickles lost a leg; Colonel John 
Wheeler, of the Twentieth Indiana, was killed ; General Hood, 
of the Confederate forces, was severely injured, and Generals 
Barksdale and Semms were mortally wounded. The fighting 
was fierce, and when it stopped in the night the advantage was 
apparently with the Federals. It is pleasing, in this con- 
nection, to recall the eulogistic words on the death of Colonel 
John Wheeler, by General Ward, his brigade commander, who 
said of him, 

'A more gallant soldier and efficient officer did 
not exist. The great State of Indiana may well feel 
proud of John Wheeler, the hero, the patriot, and 
the honest man. He was worthy to command the 
glorious Twentieth, and his command was proud 
of him.' 



44 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

"General Pickett's famous charge with forty-two regi- 
ments, which occurred on the third day of the battle, and its 
disastrous repulse, was a fatal blow to the Confederates; it 
virtually ended the battle and tended to neutralize Lee's mili- 
tary prestige. A historian says: 'The third day's battle at 
Gettysburg will go down in history, and be for ages the 
theme of song, because of the charge of Pickett on Hancock's 
line.' 

"The official records show the Confederate loss at Gettys- 
burg to have been in killed, wounded and missing, 22,451 men, 
and the total Federal loss to have been 23,049. Indiana was 
represented in the battle by five regiments of infantry, and 
eight companies of cavalry. Colonel Grover commanded the 
Seventh regiment ; Colonel Coons the Fourteenth ; Colonel Wil- 
liams the Nineteenth; Colonel Wheeler the Twentieth, and 
after he was killed, Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, and Colonel 
Colgrove the Twenty-seventh, succeeded by Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Fesler. 

"On the morning of July 3d, Lieutenant-Colonel Fesler, 
of the Twenty-seventh Indiana, and the Second Massachu- 
setts, were ordered to occupy the breastworks that had been 
occupied by the Third Wisconsin on the night of the 2d. The 
Confederates were in possession of the breastworks at the time 
Colonel Fesler and his men were ordered to charge them. The 
fire of the Confederates was so deadly that when the Union 
forces approached within a hundred yards of the works the 
latter was compelled to command his men to fall back, which 
they did, but continued firing at intervals till 4 p. m., July 4th. 

"But I shall not attempt to point out the fighting by the 
different Indiana regiments. I do not desire to run the risk 
of doing an injustice to a single regiment of soldiers, either 
by omission or commission. In a crisis that tries men's souls, 
comparisons are always odious. Indiana rejoices in the ability, 
the valor, and the patriotism displayed by her sons who fought 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 45 

their brothers on this field of carnage, and she is not here 
as a participant in this brotherly greeting to add glory to their 
fame, by withholding a just meed of praise from the soldiers 
of other states who fought on either side of the tremendous 
issue. But rather is she here to join in swelling the chorus of 
glad acclaim in recognition of the absence of sectional hatred, 
and the presence of peace, prosperity and patriotism among all 
the people of the Union. 

"After contemplating the hills, the mountains, and the 
surroundings of the battle of Gettysburg, one who wore the 
Gray has fittingly described the feelings of Indiana, when he 
said, 

'God lives and reigns : He built and lent 
These heights for freedom's battlement, 
Where floats her flag in triumph still. 

'Fold up the banners ; smelt the guns ; 

Love rules ; her gentler purpose runs. 
A mighty mother turns in tears 

The pages of her battle years. 
Lamenting all her fallen sons.' 

"No, this is neither the time nor the place to point out the 
superior bravery or fighting qualities of the sons of one 
State, over the sons of another State, or the contribution any 
State may have made to save the Union beyond what some 
other State may have done to save the Union. This day and 
this gathering are set apart as an opportune time and place for 
the Blue and the Gray to recount the incidents, the hardships, 
and the cruelties of the war; and forgetting their differences 
of the past, to renew their allegiance to the American Govern- 
ment. 

"This field on which we look was once the scene of as 
great a display of human bravery as the world ever witnessed. 



46 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

The test of American courage is the test of American endur- 
ance. And in these valleys, up these slopes, and upon these 
heights that test was made. It was a fearful test. It was made 
in a war to the death between men of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
It was made in a contest between men of the same country — 
heirs of the same traditions — men who loved liberty, and held 
high ideals of personal honor — men of character as well as 
courage. In measuring their strength they defied the belching 
hell of the roaring cannon, and grappled with one another in the 
deadly struggle. They felt the cut and thrust of the sword and 
bayonet till the earth was red. But they fought on and on till — 

'Above the bayonets mixed and crossed, 
Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost, 
Receding through the battle cloud.' 

"Now, this same field is to afford the world its greatest 
object lesson in peace. The centuries leading to and beyond 
the pyramids never beheld anything like it. 

"Let silence prevail, while these gray-haired veterans, 
broken in body and with tear-filled eyes, retrace their steps of 
fifty years ago, where their comrades fell and died; silence, 
while these sons — no longer designated as the Blue and the 
Gray, but as the joint guardians of the Stars and Stripes — 
arm in arm, take final view of the places where sleep their 
dead ; silence, while from this mecca of American liberty and 
union, their feeble voices are heard above the humdrum and 
noise attendant upon National progress, to proclaim that there 
shall be no more war between the people of this Republic ; that 
the blood of those who sleep here has become the seed of the 
State — the blessed and sacred seed of a more perfect union. 

"Those who were not participants in this battle should not 
fail to be taught by it lessons, in the duties of citizenship. It 
suggests the importance of patience, forbearance and charity. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 47 

It teaches the value of higher ideals. It points out the neces- 
sity for a more exalted statesmanship in the world's best Re- 
public. 

"Contemplating the scenes here enacted, and reviewing the 
sacrifices of National import here made for the integrity of 
Old Glory, 'manifest destiny' should mean to us that this Re- 
public shall be the mightiest moral force and influence since 
the beginning of history. Americanism should be the inspira- 
tion of other nations to do justice and to be merciful, in recog- 
nition of the brotherhood of man. 

Survivors of Gettysburg, there is inspiration in a Nation's 
tribute to the opposing veterans of a historic battle. There is 
inspiration in the spirit of comradeship and good will with 
which you have met. There is inspiration in the conviction, 
that each one of you did your duty, as you saw it in that su- 
preme test of manhood — devotion to duty unto death. You 
fought a good fight, you struck the high note in the perform- 
ance of public service, and have lived to see the logic of events 
master the logic of men. With security you can walk down 
the short and shortening path of life, as the curtain lowers 
about you. With patience and serenity you can await what- 
ever the future has in store for you, saying with glorious old 
John Burroughs, — 

'Serene, I fold my hands and wait. 

Nor care for winds, or tide, or sea, 
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate. 

For lo! My own shall come to me. 

'The stars come nightly to the sky, 

The tidal wave unto the sea ; 
Nor time nor space, nor deep nor high, 

Can keep my own away from me.' " 

Happy, pertinent and eloquent addresses were also made 



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s 

by Captain David E. Beem, a member of the commission, and 
an officer of the Fourteenth Indiana, who had participated in 
the great battle, also by Hon. Will R. Wood, State Senator 
from Indiana, Hon. Thomas R. Honan, Attorney-General of 
Indiana, and Hon. W. W. Spencer, floor leader of the lower 
house of the General Assembly at the last session of the Leg- 
islature, and by James W. Fesler, son of Lieutenant-Colonel 
John R. Fesler, the only living commander of an Indiana regi- 
ment that fought at Gettysburg. 

The occasion was one of enthusiastic good humor, inter- 
spersed throughout with patriotic songs, in which the great 
audience heartily joined. All went away feeling that the meet- 
ing in the big tent on Indiana Day, had been one of the 
crowning successes of the anniversary. 

This meeting was attended by the entire Indiana contin- 
gent, regardless of previous service, and had much to do in en- 
hancing the fraternal feeling that seemed to pervade all pres- 
ent from the very hour of our starting to Gttysburg. All felt 
that the prophesy of the immortal Lincoln, when he said, "We 
are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Pas- 
sion may have strained, but it must not break the bonds of 
affections. The mystic chords of memory stretching from 
every battlefield and patriot grave to every heart and hearth- 
stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the 
Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the 
better angels of our nature." The passion that had strained, 
had not broken the bond of our affection. The m3'stic chords 
of memory had touched the better angels of our natures, and 
at Gettysburg we did swell the chorus of the Li^nion. Those 
who went there, returned to their homes filled with the spirit of 
brotherly love and forgiveness prepared to teach their children, 
and coming generations, the new lesson they had learned at 
this great jubilee. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



The veterans to whom transportation was issued by the 
State of Indiana represented almost every State in the Union, 
both North and South, and the record of the various organ- 
izations to which these men belonged, is preserved in the Ad- 
jutant-General's Office of the United States at Washington, 
D. C. For the information of those reading this report, we 
give the complete official roster of both the Army of the Po- 
tomac, and the Army of Northern Virginia, as they stood on 
the first day of July, 1863, when they went into action at 
Gettysburg. 

ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 

Ma J. Gen. George G. Meade, U. S. Army, 
Commanding at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. 

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. 

Command of the Provost-Marshal-General. 
Brig. Gen. Marsena R. Patrick. 
Ninety-third New York, Col. John S. Crocker. 
Eighth United States (eight companies), Capt. Edwin W. H. 

Head. 
Second Pennsylvania Cavalry, Col. R. Butler Price. 
Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies E and I, Capt. James 

Starr. 
Regular Cavalry (detachments from First, Second, Fifth and 

Sixth regiments). 



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Signed Corps. 
Capt. Lemuel B. Norton. 

Guards and Orderlies. 
Oneida (New York) Cavalry, Capt. Daniel P. Mann. 

ARTILLERY. 
Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt. 

Engineer Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Henry W. Benham. 

Fifteenth New York (three companies), Maj. Walter L. 

Cassin. 
Fiftieth New York, Col. William H. Pettes. 
United States Battalion, Capt. George H. Mendell. 

FIRST ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday. 
Maj. Gen. John Newton. 

General Headquarters. 
First Maine Cavalry, Company L, Capt. Constantine Taylor. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Solomon Meredith. 
Col. William W. Robinson. 
Nineteenth Indiana, Col. Samuel J. Williams. 
Twenty-fourth Michigan, Col. Henry A. Morrow, Capt. Al- 
bert M. Edwards. 
Second Wisconsin, Col. Lucius Fairchild, Maj. John Mans- 
field, Capt. George D. Otis, 



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Sixth Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. Rufus R. Dawes. 
Seventh Wisconsin, Col. William W. Robinson, Maj. Mark 
Finnicum. 

Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler. 
Seventh Indiana, Col. Ira G. Grover. 
Seventy-sixth New York, Maj. Andrew J. Grover, Capt. John 

E. Cook. 
Eighty-fourth New York (Fourteenth militia), Col. Edward 

B. Fowler. 

Ninety-fifth New York, Col. George H. Biddle, Maj. Ed. Pye. 
One Hundred Forty-seventh New York, Lieut. Col. Francis 

C. Miller, Maj. George Harney. 

Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania (nine companies). Col. J. William 
Hofmann. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. John C. Robinson. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Gabriel R. Paul. 
Col. Samuel H. Leonard. 
Col. Adrian R. Root. 
Col. Richard Coulter. 
Col. Peter Lyle. 
Col. Richard Coulter. 
Sixteenth Maine, Col. Charles W. Tilden, Maj, Archibald D, 

Leavitt. 
Thirteenth Massachusetts, Col. Samuel M. Leonard, Lieut. 

Col. N. Walter Batchelder. 
Ninety- fourth New York, Col. Adrian R. Root, Maj. Samuel 

A. Moffitt. 
One Hundred Seventh Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. James Mc- 

Thomson, Capt. Emanuel D. Roath. 
One Hundred Fourth New York, Col. Gilbert G. Brey. 



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Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Henry Baxter. 

Twelfth Massachusetts, Col. James L. Bates, Lieut. Col. David 
Allen, Jr. 

Eighty-third New York (Ninth militia), Lieut. Col. Joseph 
A. Moesch. 

Ninety-seventh New York, Col. Charles Wheelock, Maj. 
Charles Northrup. 

Eleventh Pennsylvania, Col. Richard Coulter, Capt. Benjamin 
F. Haines, Capt. John B. Overmyer. 

Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania, Maj. Benezet F. Foust, Capt. 
Henry Whitesides. 

Ninetieth Pennsylvania, Col. Peter Lyle, Maj. Alfred J. Sel- 
lers, Col. Peter Lyle. 



THIRD DIVISION. 

Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Rowley. 
Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday. 

First Brigade. 
Col. Chapman Biddle. 
Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Rowley. 
Col. Chapman Biddle. 
Eightieth New York (Twentieth militia), Col. Theodore B. 

Gates. 
One Hundred Twenty- first Pennsylvania, Maj. Alexander Bid- 
dle, Col. Chapman Biddle, Maj. Alexander Biddle. 
One Hundred Forty-second Pennsylvania, Col. Robert P. 

Cummins, Lieut. Col. A. B. McCalmont. 
One Hundred Fifty-first Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. George F. 
McFarland, Capt. Walter L. Owens, Col. Harrison Allen. 



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Second Brigade. 
Col. Roy Stone. 
Col. Langhorne Wister. 
Col. Edmund L. Dana. 
One Hundred Forty-third Pennsylvania, Col. Edmund L. 

Dana, Lieut. Col. John D. Musser. 
One Hundred Forty-ninth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Walton 

Dwight, Capt. James Glenn. 
One Hundred Fiftieth Pennsylvania, Col. Langhorne Wister, 
Lieut. Col. H. S. Huidekoper, Capt, Cornelius C. Widdis. 



Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. George J. Stannard. 
Col. Francis V. Randall. 
Twelfth Vermont, Col. Asa P. Blunt. 
Thirteenth Vermont, Col. Francis V. Randall, Maj. Joseph J. 

Boynton, Lieut. Col. William D. Munson, 
Fourteenth Vermont, Col. William T. Nichols. 
Fifteenth Vermont, Col. Redfield Proctor. 
Sixteenth Vermont, Col. Wheelock G. Veasey, 



ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Col. Charles S. Wainwright. 

Maine Light, Second Battery (B), Capt. James A. Hall. 

Maine Light, Fifth Battery (E), Capt. Greenleaf T. Stevens, 
Lieut. Edward N. Whittier. 

First New York, Light Battery (L). Capt. Gilbert H. Rey- 
nolds, Lieut. George Breck. 

First Pennsylvania, Light Battery (B), Capt. James H. Cooper. 

Fourth United States Battery (B), Lieut. James Stewart. 



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SECOND ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock. 
Brig. Gen. John Gibbon. 

General Headquarters. 
Sixth New York Cavalry, Companies D and K, Capt. Riley 
Johnson. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. John. C. Caldwell. 

First Brigade. 

Col. Edward E. Cross. 

Col. H. Boyd McKeen. 

Fifth New Hampshire, Lieut. Col. Charles E. Hapgood. 

Sixty-first New York, Lieut. Col. Oscar Broady. 

Eighty-first Pennsylvania, Col. H. Boyd McKeen, Lieut. Col. 

Amos Stroh, 
One Hundred Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Robert 
McFarlane. 



Second Brigade. 
Col. Patrick Kelly. 
Twenty-eighth Massachusetts, Col. R. Byrnes. 
Sixty-third New York (two companies), Lieut. Col. Richard 

C. Bently, Capt. Thomas Touhy. 
Sixty-ninth New York (two companies), Capt. Richard Mo- 

roney, Lieut. James J. Smith. 
Eighty-eighth New York (two companies), Capt. Denis F. 

Burke. 
One Hundred Sixteenth Pennsylvania (four companies), Maj. 

St. Clair A. Mulholland. 



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Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Samuel K. Zook. 
Lieut. Col. John Fraser. 
Fifty-second New York, Lieut. Col. C. G. Freudenberg, Capt. 

William Scherrer. 
Fifty-seventh New York, Col. Alford B. Chapman. 
Sixty-sixth New York, Col. Orlando H. Morris, Lieut. Col. 

John S. Hammell, Maj. Peter Nelson. 
One Hundred Fortieth Pennsylvania, Col. Richard P. Roberts, 
Lieut. Col. John Fraser, 

Fourth Brigade. 

Col. John R. Brooke. 

Twenty-seventh Connecticut (two companies), Lieut. Col. 

Henry C. Merwin, Maj. James H. Coburn. 
Second Delaware, Col. William P. Baily, Capt. Charles H. 

Christman. 
Sixty-fourth New York, Col. Daniel G. Bingham, Maj. Le- 

man W. Bradley. 
Fifty-third Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Richard McMichael. 
One Hundred Forty-fifth Pennsylvania (seven companies). 

Col. Hiram L. Brown, Capt. John W. Reynolds, Capt. 

Moses W. Oliver. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. John Gibbon. 
Brig. Gen. William Harlow. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. William Harrow. 
Col. Francis E. Heath. 
Nineteenth Maine, Col. Francis E. Heath, Lieut. Col. Henry 

W. Cunningham. 
Fifteenth Massachusetts, Col. George H. Ward, Lieut. Col. 
George C. Joslin. 



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First Minnesota, Col. William Covill, Jr., Capt. Nathan S. 

Messick, Capt. Henry C. Coates. 
Eighty-second New York (Second militia), Lieut, Col. James 

Huston, Capt. John Darrow. 



Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Alexander S. Webb. 

Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania, Col. Dennis O. Kane, Capt. William 

Davis. 
Seventy-first Pennsylvania, Col. Richard Penn Smith. 
Seventy-second Pennsylvania, Col. DeWitt C. Baxter, Lieut. 

Col. Theodore Hesser. 
One Hundred Sixth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. William L. 

Curry. 



Third Brigade. 
Col. Norman J. Hall. 

Nineteenth Massachusetts, Col. Arthur F. Devereux. 
Twentieth Massachusetts, Col. Paul J. Revere, Lieut. Col. 

George N. Macy, Capt. Henry L. Abbott. 
Seventh Michigan, Lieut. Col. Amos E. Steele, Jr., Maj. Syl- 

vanus W. Curtis. 
Forty-second New York, Col. James E. Mallon. 
Fifty-ninth New York (four companies), Lieut. Col. Max A. 

Thoman, Capt. William McFadden. 



UNATTACHED. 

Massachusetts Sharpshooters, First Company, Capt. William 
Plummer, Lieut. Emerson L. Bicknell. 



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THIRD DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Alexander Hays. 

First Brigade. 
Col. Samuel S. Carroll. 
Fourteenth Indiana, Col. John Coons. 
Fourth Ohio, Lieut. Col. Leonard C. Carpenter. 
Eighth Ohio, Col. Franklin Sawyer. 
Seventh West Virginia, Lieut. Col. Jonathan H. Lockwood. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Thomas A. Smyth. 
Lieut. Col. Francis E. Pierce. 
Fourteenth Connecticut, Maj. Theodore G. Ellis. 
First Delaware, Lieut. Col. Edward P. Harris, Capt. Thomas 

B. Hizar, Lieut. William Smith, Lieut. John T. Dent. 
Twelfth New Jersey, Maj. John T. Hill. 
Tenth New York (battalion), Maj. George F. Hopper. 
One Hundred Eighth New York, Lieut. Col. Francis E. Pierce. 

Third Brigade. 
Col. George L. Willard. 
Col. Eliakim Sherrill. 
Lieut. Col. James M. Bull. 
Thirty-ninth New York (four companies), Maj. Hugo Hilde- 

brand. 
One Hundred Eleventh New York, Col. Clinton D. McDou- 

gall, Lieut. Col. Isaac M. Lusk, Capt. Aaron P. Seeley. 
One Hundred Twenty-fifth New York, Lieut. Col. Levin 

Crandell. 
One Hundred twenty-sixth New York, Col. Eliakim Sherrill, 
Lieut. Col. James M. Bull. 



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ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Capt. John G. Hazard. 

First New York Light Battery (B), Lieut. Albert S. Sheldon, 
Capt. James McKay Rorty, Lieut. Robert E. Rigers. 

First Rhode Island Light Battery (A), Capt. William A. Ar- 
nold, 

First Rhode Island Light Battery (B), Lieut. T. Fred Brown, 
Lieut. Walter S. Perrin. 

First United States Battery (I), Lieut. George A. Woodruff, 
Lieut. Tully McCrea. 

Fourth United States Battery (A), Lieut. Alonzo H. Gush- 
ing, Sergt. Fredrick Fuger. 

THIRD ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. 
Maj. Gen. David B. Birney. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. David B. Birney. 
Brig. Gen. J. H. Hobart Ward. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Charles K. Graham. 
Col. Andrew H. Tippin. 
Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania (eight companies), Col. Peter 

Sides, Capt. Alanson H. Nelson. 
Sixty-third Pennsylvania, Maj. John A. Banks. 
Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania, Col. Andrew H. Tippin, Capt. Mil- 
ton S. Davis. 
One Hundred Fifth Pennsylvania, Col. Calvin A. Craig. 
One Hundred Fourteenth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Fredrick 

A. Cavada, Capt. Edward R. Bowen. 
One Hundred Forty-first Pennsylvania, Col. Henry J. Madill. 



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Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. J. H. Hobart Ward. 
Col. Hiram Berdan. 
Twentieth Indiana, Col. John Wheeler, Lieut. Col. William C. 

L. Taylor. 
Third Maine, Col. Moses B. Lakeman. 
Fourth Maine, Col. Elijah Walker, Capt. Edwin Libby. 
Eighty-sixth New York, Lieut. Col. Benjamin L. Higgins. 
One Hundred Twenty-fourth, Col. A. Van Home Ellis, Lieut. 

Col. Francis M. Cummins. 
Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, Maj. John W. Moore. 
First United States Sharpshooters, Col. Hiram Berdan, Lieut. 

Col. Casper Trepp. 
Second United States Sharpshooters (eight companies), Maj. 

Homer R. Stoughton. 

Third Brigade. 
CoL. P. Regis De Trobriand. 
Seventeenth Maine, Lieut. Col. Charles B. Merrill. 
Third Michigan, Col. Byron R. Pierce, Lieut. Col. Edwin S. 

Pierce. 
Fifth Michigan, Lieut. Col. John Pulford. 
Fortieth New York, Col. Thomas W. Egan. 
One Hundred Tenth Pennsylvania (six companies), Lieut. 
Col. David M. Jones, Maj. Isaac Rogers. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Carr. 
First Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Clark B. Baldwin. 
Eleventh Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Porter D. Tripp. 
Sixteenth Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Waldo Marriam, Capt 
Matthew Donovan. 



60 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

Twelfth New Hampshire, Capt. John F. Langley. 

Eleventh New Jersey, Capt. Robert McAllister, Capt. Luther 
Martin, Lieut. John Schoonover, Capt. William H. Lloyd, 
Capt. Samuel T. Sleeper, Lieut. John Schoonover. 

Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania, Maj. Robert L. Bodine. 

Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Milton Opp. 

Second Brigade. 
Col. William R. Brewster. 
Seventieth New York, Col. J. Egbert Farnum. 
Seventy-first New York, Col. Henry L. Potter. 
Seventy-second New York, Col. John S. Austin, Lieut. Col. 

John Leonard. 
Seventy-third New York, Maj. Michael W. Burns. 
Seventy-fourth New York, Lieut. Thomas Holt. 
One Hundred Twentieth New York, Lieut. Col. Cornelius D. 

Westbrook, Maj. John R. Tappan. 

Third Brigade. 
CoL. George C. Burling. 
Second New Hampshire, Col. Edward L. Bailey. 
Fifth New Jersey, Col. William J. Sewell, Capt. Thomas C. 

Godfrey, Capt. Henry H. Woolsey. 
Sixth New Jersey, Lieut. Col. Stephen R. Gilkyson. 
Seventh New Jersey, Col. Louis R. Francine, Maj. Frederick 

Cooper. 
Eighth New Jersey, Col. John Ramsey, Capt. John G. Lang- 

ston. 
One Hundred Fifteenth Pennsylvania, Maj. John P. Dunne. 

ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Capt. George E. Randolph. 
Capt. A. Judson Clark. 
New Jersey Light Second Battery, Capt. A. Judson Clark, 
Lieut. Robert Sims. 



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First New York Light Battery (D), Capt. George B. Winslow. 
New York Light Fourth Battery, Capt. James E. Smith. 
First Rhode Island Light Battery (E), Lieut. John K. Buck- 

lyn, Lieut. Benjamin Freeborn. 
Fourth United States Battery (K), Lieut. Francis W. Seeley, 

Lieut. Robert James. 

FIFTH ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. George Sykes. 

General Headquarters. 
Twelfth New York Infantry, Companies D and E, Capt. Henry 

W. Rider. 
Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies D and E, Capt. 

William Thompson. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. James Barnes. 

First Brigade. 
CoL. William S. Tilton. 
Eighteenth Massachusetts, Col. Joseph Hayes. 
Twenty-second Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Thomas Sherwin, 

Jr. 
First Michigan, Col. Ira C. Abbott, Lieut. Col. William A. 

Throop. 
One Hundred Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. James 

Gwyn. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Jacob B. Sweetzer. 
Ninth Massachusetts, Col. Patrick R. Guiney. 
Thirty-second Massachusetts, Col. G. L. Prescott. 



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s 

Fourth Michigan, Col. Harrison H. Jeffords, Lieut. Col. 

George W. Lumbard. 
Sixty-second Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. James C. Hull. 

Third Brigade. 
Col. Strong Vincent. 
Col. James C. Rice. 
Twentieth Maine, Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain. 
Sixteenth Michigan, Lieut. Col. Norval E. Welch. 
Forty-fourth New York, Col. James C. Rice, Lieut. Col. Free- 
man Conner. 
Eighty-third Pennsylvania, Capt. Orpheus S. Woodward. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres. 

First Brigade. 

CoL. Hannibal Day. 

Third United States (six companies), Capt. Henry W. Freed- 

ley, Capt. Richard G. Lay. 
Fourth United States (four companies), Capt. Julius W. Ad- 

amds, Jr. 
Sixth United States (five companies), Capt. Levi C. Bootes. 
Twelfth United States (eight companies), Capt. Thomas S. 

Dunn. 
Fourteenth United States (eight companies), Maj. Grotius R. 

Giddings. 

Second Brigade. 

CoL. Sidney Burbank. 

Second United States (six companies), Maj. Arthur T. Lee, 

Capt. Samuel A. McKee. 
Seventh United States (four companies), Capt. David P. 
Hancock. 



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Tenth United States (three companies), Capt. William Clin- 
ton. 

Eleventh United States (six companies), Maj. De Lancey 
Floyd-Jones. 

Seventeenth United States (seven companies), Lieut. Col. J. 
Durrell Greene. 

Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed. 
Col. Kenner Garrard. 
One Hundred Fortieth New York, Col. Patrick H. O. Rorke, 

Lieut. Col. Louis Ernst. 
One Hundred Forty-sixth New York, Col. Kenner Garrard, 

Lieut. Col. David T. Jenkins. 
Ninety-first Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Joseph Sinex. 
One Hundred Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. John H. 
Cain. 

THIRD DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Crawford. 

First Brigade. 

Col. William McCandless. 

First Pennsylvania Reserves (nine companies), Col. William 

C. Talley. 
Second Pennsylvania Reserves, Lieut. Col. George A. Wood- 
ward. 
Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves, Lieut. Col. Wellington H. Ent 
Thirteenth Pennsylvania Reserves, Col. Charles F. Taylor. 
Maj. William R. Hartshorne. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Joseph W. Fisher. 
Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves, Lieut. Col. George Dare. 



64 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves, Lieut. Col. James McK. Snod- 
grass. 

Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves, Col. Adonia J. Warner. 

Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves, Col. Samuel M. Jackson. 

Twelfth Pennsylvania Reserves (nine companies), Col. Mar- 
tin D. Hardin. 

ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 

Massachusetts Light Third Battery (C), Lieut. Aaron F, Wal- 

cott. 
First New York Light Battery (C), Capt. Almont Barnes. 
First Ohio Light Battery (L), Capt. Frank C. Gibbs. 
Fifth United States Battery (D), Lieut. Charles E. Hazlett, 

Lieut. Benjamin F. Rittenhouse. 
Fifth United States Battery (I), Lieut. Malbone F. Watson, 

Lieut. Charles C. Mac Connell. 

SIXTH ARMY CORPS. 

Ma J. Gen. John Sedgwick. 

General Headquarters. 
First New Jersey Cavalry, Company L, Capt. William S. 

Craft. 
First Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company H, Capt. William S. 

Craft. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Horatio G. Wright. 

Provost Guard. 
Fourth New Jersey (three companies), Capt. William R. Max- 
well. 



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First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. A. T. C. Torbert. 
First New Jersey, Lieut. Col. William Henry, Jr. 
Second New Jersey, Lieut. Col. Charles Wiebeckse. 
Third New Jersey, Lieut. Col. Edward L. Campbell. 
Fifteenth New Jersey, Col. William H. Penrose. 

Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett. 
Fifth Maine, Col. Clark S. Edwards. 

One Hundred Twenty-first New York, Col. Emory Upton. 
Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Edward Carroll. 
Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania, Maj. William H. Lessig. 

Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. David A. Russell. 
Sixth Maine, Col. Hiram Bumham. 
Forty-ninth Pennsylvania (four companies), Lieut. Col. 

Thomas H. HuHngs. 
One Hundred Nineteenth Pennsylvania, Col. Peter C. Ell- 

maker. 
Fifth Wisconsin, Col. Thomas A. Allen. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Albion P. Howe. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Lewis A. Grant. 
Second Vermont, Col. James H. Dalbridge. 
Third Vermont, Col. Thomas O. Seaver. 
Fourth Vermont, Col. Charles H. Stoughton. 
Fifth Vermont, Lieut. Col. John B. Lewis. 
Sixth Vermont, Col. Elisha L. Barney. 



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Third Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Neill. 

Seventh Maine (six companies), Lieut. Col. Selden Connor. 

Thirty-third New York (detachment), Capt. Henry J. Gif- 

ford. 
Forty-third New York, Lieut. Col. John Wilson. 
Forty-ninth New York, Col. Daniel E. Bidwell. 
Seventy-seventh New York, Lieut. Col. Winsor B. French. 
Sixty-first Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. George F. Smith. 

THIRD DIVISION. 

Maj. Gen. John Newton. 
Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Alexander Shaler. 
Sixty-fifth New York, Col. Joseph E. Hamblin. 
Sixty-seventh New York, Col. Nelson Cross. 
One Hundred Twenty-second New York, Col. Silas Titus. 
Twenty-third Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. John F. Glenn. 
Eighty-second Pennsylvania, Col. Isaac C. Bassett. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Henry L. Eustis. 
Seventh Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Franklin P. Harlow. 
Tenth Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Joseph B. Parson. 
Thirty-seventh Massachusetts, Col. Oliver Edwards. 
Second Rhode Island, Col. Horatio Rogers, Jr. 

Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton. 
Col. David J. Nevin. 
Sixty-second New York, Col. David J. Neven, Lieut. Col. 
Theodore B. Hamilton. 



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Ninety-third Pennsylvania, Maj. John I. Nevin. 

Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania, Maj. John B. Kohler. 

One Hundred Second Pennsylvania, Col. John W. Patter- 
son. 

One Hundred Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania, Col. Fredrick H. 
Collier, Lieut. Col. William H. Moody. 



ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Col. Charles H. Tompkins. 

Massachusetts Light, First Battery (A), Capt. William H. Mc- 
Cartney. 

New York Light, First Battery, Capt. Andrew Cowan. 

New York Light, Third Battery, Capt. William H. Harn. 

First Rhode Island Battery (C), Capt. Richard Waterman. 

First Rhode Island Battery (G), Capt. George W. Adams. 

Second United States Battery (D), Lieut. Edward B. Willis- 
ton. 

Second United States Battery (G), Lieut. John H. Butler. 

Fifth United States Battery (F), Lieut. Leonard Martin. 



ELEVENTH ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard. 

General Headquarters. 

First Indiana Cavalry, Companies I and K, Capt. Abram 

Sharra. 
Eighth New York Infantry (one company), Lieut. Hermann 

Foerster. 



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FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Francis C. Barlow. 
Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames. 

First Brigade. 

Col. Leophold Von Gilsa. 

Forty-first New York (nine companies), Lieut. Col. D. Etleo 

Von Einsidel. 
Fifty- fourth New York, Maj. Stephen Kovacs, Lieut. Ernst 

Both. 
Sixty-eighth New York, Col. Gotthilf Bourry. 
One Hundred Fifty-third Pennsylvania, Maj. John F. Fru- 
eauff. 

Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames. 
Col. Andrew L. Harris. 
Seventeenth Connecticut, Lieut. Col. Douglass Fowler, Maj. 

Allen Brady. 
Twenty-fifth Ohio, Lieut. Col. Jeremiah Williams, Capt. Na- 
thaniel J. Manning, Lieut. William Maloney, Lieut. Israel 
White. 
Seventy-fifth Ohio, Col. Andrew L. Harris, Capt. George B. 

Fox. 
One Hundred Seventh Ohio, Col. Seraphim Meyer, Capt. John 
M. Lutz. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Adolh Von Steinwehr. 

First Brigade. 
Col. Charles R. Coster. 
One Hundred Thirty-fourth New York, Lieut. Col. Allen H. 
Jackson. 



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One Hundred Fifty-fourth New York, Lieut. Col. D. B. 

Allen. 
Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Lorenz Cantador. 
Seventy-third Pennsylvania, Capt. D. F. Kelley. 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. Orland Smith. 
Thirty-third Massachusetts, Col. Adin B. Underwood. 
One Hundred Thirty-sixth New York, Col. James Wood, Jr. 
Fifty-fifth Ohio, Col. Charles B. Gambee. 
Seventy-third Ohio, Lieut. Col. Richard Long. 

THIRD DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. Carl Schurz. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Alex Schimmelfennig. 
Col. George Von Amsberg. 
Eighty-second Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edward S. Salomon. 
Forty-fifth New York, Col. George Von Amsberg, Lieut. Col. 

Adolph Dobke. 
One Hundred Fifty-seventh New York, Col. Philip P. Brown. 
Sixty-first Ohio, Col. Stephen J. McGroarty. 
Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania, Col. Adolph Hartung, Lieut. 
Col. Alexander Von Mitzel, Capt. Gustav Schleiter, Capt. 
Henry Krauseneck. 

Second Brigade. 

CoL. W. Krzyzanowski. 

Fifty-eighth New York, Col. August Otto, Capt. Emil Koenig. 

One Hundred Nineteenth New York, Col. John T. Lockman. 

Lieut. Col. Edward Floyd. 
Eighty-second Ohio, Col. James S. Robinson, Lieut. Col. Da- 
vid Thomson. 



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Seventy- fifth Pennsylvania, Col. Francis Mahler, Maj. August 

Leddg. 
Twenty-sixth Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. Hans Boebel, Capt. John 

W. Fuchs. 

ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Maj. Thomas W. Osborn. 
First New York Light Battery (I), Capt. Michael Weidrich. 
New York Light, Thirteenth Battery, Lieut. William Wheeler. 
First Ohio Light Battery (I), Capt. Hubert Dilger. 
First Ohio Light Battery (K), Capt. Lewis Heckman. 
Fourth United States Battery (G), Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, 
Lieut. Eugene A. Bancroft. 

TWELFTH ARMY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum. 
Brig. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams. 

Provost Guard. 
Tenth Maine (four companies), Capt. John D. Beardsley. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams. 
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Ruger. 

First Brigade. 
CoL. Archibald L. McDougal. 
Fifth Connecticut, Col. W. W. Packer. 
Twentieth Connecticut, Lieut. Col. William B. Wooster. 
Third Maryland, Col. Joseph M. Sudsburg. 
One Hundred Twenty-third New York, Lieut. Col. James C 

Rogers, Capt. Adolphus H. Tanner. 
One Hundred Forty-fifth New York, Col. E. L. Price. 
Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, Col. James L, Selfridge. 



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Second Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Henry H. Lockwood. 

First Maryland, Potomac Home Brigade, Col. William P. 

Maulsby. 
First Maryland, Eastern Shore, Col. James Wallace. 
One Hundred Fiftieth New York, Col. John H. Ketcham. 



Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Ruger. 
Col. Silas Colgrove. 

Twenty-seventh Indiana, Col. Silas Colgrove, Lieut. Col. John 

R. Fesler. 
Second Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Charles R. Mudge, Maj. 

Charles F. Morse. 
Thirteenth New Jersey, Col. Ezra A. Carman. 
One Hundred Seventh New York, Col. Nirom Crane. 
Third Wisconsin, Col. William Hawley. 



SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. John W. Geary. 

First Brigade. 
CoL. Charles Candy. 

Fifth Ohio. Col. John H. Patrick. 

Seventh Ohio, Col. William R. Creighton. 

Twenty-ninth Ohio, Capt. Wilbur F. Stevens, Capt. Edward 

Hayes. 
Sixty-sixth Ohio, Col. Eugene Powell. 
Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, Capt. John Flynn. 
One Hundred Forty-seventh Pennsylvania (eight companies), 

Lieut. Col. Ario Pardee, Jr. 



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Second Brigade. 
Col. George A. Cobham, Jr. 
Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Kane. 
Col. George A. Cobham, Jr. 
Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania, Col. William Rickards, Jr. 
One Hundred Ninth Pennsylvania, Capt. F. L. Gimber. 
One Hundred Eleventh Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Thomas M. 
Walker, Col. George A. Cobham, Jr., Lieut. Col. Thomas 
M. Walker. 

Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. George S. Greene. 
Sixtieth New York, Col. Abel Goddard. 
Seventy-eighth New York, Lieut. Col. Herbert Von Ham- 

merstein. Col. James C. Lane, Capt. Lewis R. Stegman. 
One Hundred Thirty-seventh New York, Col. David Ireland. 
One Hundred Forty-ninth New York, Col. Henry A. Barnum, 
Lieut. Col. Charles B. Randall. 

ARTILLERY BRIGADE. 
Lieut. Edward D. Muhlenberg. 
First New York Light Battery (M), Lieut. Charles E. Wine- 
gar. 
Pennsylvania Light Battery (E), Lieut. Charles A. Atwell. 
Fourth United States Battery (F), Lieut. Sylvanus T. Rugg. 
Fifth United States, Battery (K), Lieut. David H. Kinzie. 

CAVALRY CORPS. 
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton. 

FIRST DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. John Buford. 



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First Brigade. 
Col. William Gamble, 
Eighth Illinois, Maj. John L. Beveridge. 
Twelfth Illinois (four companies), Col. George H. Chapman. 
Third Indiana (six companies). 
Eighth New York, Lieut. Col. William L. Markell. 

Second Brigade. 
Col. Thomas C. Devin. 
Sixth New York, Maj. William E. Beardsley. 
Ninth New York, Col. William Sackett. 
Seventeenth Pennsylvania, Col. J. H. Kellogg. 
Third West Virginia (two companies), Capt. Seymour B. 
Conger. 

Reserve Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt. 
Sixth Pennsylvania, Maj. James H. Haseltine. 
First United States, Capt. Richard C. Lord. 
Second United States, Capt. T. F. Rodenbough. 
Fifth United States, Capt. Julius W. Mason. 
Sixth United States, Maj. Samuel H. Starr, Lieut. Louis H. 
Carpenter, Lieut. Nicholas Nolan, Capt. Ira W. Calflin. 

SECOND DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. David McGregg. 

Headquarters Guard. 
First Ohio Company A, Capt. Noah Jones. 

First Brigade. 
CoL. John B. McIntosh. 
First Maryland (eleven companies), Lieut. Col. James M. 
Deems. 



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Purnell (Maryland) Legion Company A, Capt. Robert E. 

Duvall. 
First Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Greely B. Curtis. 
First New Jersey, Maj. M. H. Beaumont. 
First Pennsylvania, Col. John P. Taylor. 
Third Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. E. S. Jones. 
Third Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Section Battery H, Capt. 

W. D. Rank. 

Second Brigade. 
Col. Pennock Huey. 
Second New York, Lieut. Col. Otto Harhaus. 
Fourth New York, Lieut. Col. Augustus Pruyn. 
Sixth Ohio (ten companies), Maj. William Stedman. 
Eighth Pennsylvania, Capt. William A. Corrie. 

Third Brigade. 
Col. J. Irvin Gregg. 
First Maine (ten companies), Lieut. Col. Charles H. Smith. 
Tenth New York, Maj. M. Henry Avery. 
Fourth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. William E. Doster. 
Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. John K. Robison. 

THIRD DIVISION. 
Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick. 

Headquarters Guard. 
First Ohio, Company C, Capt. Samuel N. Stanford. 

First Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnesworth. 

Col. Nathaniel P. Richmond. 
Fifth New York, Maj. John Hammond. 
Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. William P. Brinton. 
First Vermont, Lieut. Col. Addison W. Preston. 



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First West Virginia (ten companies), Col. Nathaniel P. Rich- 
mond, Maj. Charles E. Capehart. 



Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. George A. Custer. 

First Michigan, Col. Charles H. Town. 

Fifth Michigan, Col. Russell A. Alger. 

Sixth Michigan, Col. George Gray. 

Seventh Michigan (ten companies), Col. William D. Mann. 



HORSE ARTILLERY. 



First Brigade. 
CoL. James M. Robertson. 

Second Michigan Battery, Capt. Jabez Daniels. 

Sixth New York Battery, Capt. Joseph W. Martin. 

Second United States, Batteries B and L, Lieut. Edward 
Heaton. 

Second United States, Battery M, Lieut. A. C. M. Penning- 
ton. 

Fourth United States, Battery E, Lieut. Samuel S. Elder. 



Second Brigade. 
Capt. John C. Tidball. 

First United States, Batteries E and G, Capt. Alanson M. 

Randol. 
First United States, Battery K, Capt. William M. Graham. 
Second United States, Battery A, Lieut. John H. Calef. 
Third United States, Battery C, Lieut. William D. Fuller. 



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ARTILLERY RESERVE. 
Brig. Gen. Robert O. Tyler. 
Capt. James M. Robertson. 

Headquarters Guard. 
Third Massachusetts Infantry, Company C, Capt. Josiah C. 
Fuller. 

First Regular Brigade. 
Capt. Dunbar R. Ransom. 

First United States, Battery H, Lieut. Chandler P. Eakin, 
Lieut. Philip D. Mason. 

Third United States, Batteries F and K, Lieut. John G. Turn- 
bull. 

Fourth United States, Battery C, Lieut. Evan Thomas. 

Fifth United States, Battery C, Lieut. Gulian V. Weir. 

First Volunteer Brigade. 

Lieut. Col. Freeman McGilvery. 

Massachusetts Light, Fifth Battery (E), Capt. Charles A. 

Phillips. 
Massachusetts Light, Ninth Battery, Capt. John BigeloAv, 

Lieut. Richard S. Milton. 
New York Light, Fifteenth Battery, Capt. Patrick Hart. 
Pennsylvania Light, Batteries C and F, Capt. James Thomp- 
son. 

Second Volunteer Brigade. 
Capt. Elijah D. Taft. 
First Connecticut Heavy, Battery B, Capt. Albert F. Brooker. 
First Connecticut Heavy, Battery M, Capt. Franklin A. Pratt. 
Connecticut Light, Second Battery, Capt. John W. Sterling. 
New York Light, Fifth Battery, Capt. Elijah D. Taft. 



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Third Volunteer Brigade. 

Capt. James F. Huntington. 

New Hampshire Light, First Battery, Capt. Fredrick M. Ed- 

gell. 
First Ohio Light, Battery H, Lieut. George W. Norton. 
First Pennsylvania Light, Batteries F. and G, Capt. R. Bruce 

Ricketts. 
West Virginia Light, Battery C, Capt. Wallace Hill. 

Fourth Volunteer Brigade. 

Capt. Robert H. Fitzhue. 
Maine Light, Sixth Battery (F), Lieut. Edwin B. Dow. 
Maryland Light, Battery A, Capt. James H. Rigby. 
New Jersey Light, First Battery, Lieut. Augiistin N. Parsons. 
First New York Light, Battery G, Capt. Nelson Ames. 
First New York Light, Battery K, Capt. Robert H. Fitzhue. 

Train Guard. 
Fourth New Jersey Infantry (seven companies), Maj. Charles 
Ewing. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN 
VIRGINIA. 

Robert E. Lee, General. 
Commanding at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. 

FIRST ARMY CORPS. 
Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet. 

McLAW'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws. 



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Kershaw's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. J. B. Kershaw. 

Second South Carolina, Col. J. D. Kennedy, Lieut. Col. F. 

Gaillard. 
Third South Carolina, Maj. R. C. Maffett, Col. J. D. Nance. 
Seventh South Carolina, Col. A. Wyatt Aiken. , 

Eighth South Carolina, Col. J. W. Henagah. ; 

Fifteenth South Carolina, Col. W. D. De Saussure, Maj. Wil- i 

ham M. Gist. | 

Third South Carolina Battalion, Lieut. Col. G. Rice. \ 



Barksdale's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. William Barksdale. 
Col. B. G. Humphreys. 
Thirteenth Mississippi, Col. J. W. Carter. 
Seventeenth Mississippi, Col. W. D. Holder, Lieut. Col. John 

C. Fiser. 
Eighteenth Mississippi, Col. T. M. Griffin, Lieut. Col. W. H. 

Luse. 
Twenty-first Mississippi, Col. B. G. Humphreys. 

Semmes's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. P. J. Semmes. 

Col. Goode Bryan. 
Tenth Georgia, Col. John B. Weems. 
Sixtieth Georgia, Col. W. R. Manning. 
Fifty-first Georgia, Col. E. Ball. 
Fifty-third Georgia, Col. James P. Simms. 
Wofford's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. W. T. Wofford. 
Sixteenth Georgia, Col. Goode Bryan. 
Eighteenth Georgia, Lieut. Col. S. Z. Ruff. 
Twenty-fourth Georgia, Col. Robert McMillan. 
Cobb's (Georgia) Legion, Lieut. Col. Luther J. Glenn. 
Phillips's (Georgia) Legion, Lieut. Col. E. S. Barclay. 



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ARTILLERY. 

Col. H. C. Cabell. 

First North Carolina Artillery, Battery A, Capt. B. C. Manly. 

Pulaski (Georgia) Artillery, Capt. J. C. Fraser, Lieut. W. J. 

Furlong. 
First Richmond Howitzers, Capt. E. S. McCarthy. 
Troup (Georgia) Artillery, Capt. H. H. Carlton, Lieut. C. W. 
Motes. 

PICKETT'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett. 

Garnetfs Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. R. B. Garnett. 
Maj. C. S. Peyton. 
Eighth Virginia, Col. Eppa Hunton. 
Eighteenth Virginia, Lieut. Col. H. A. Carrington. 
Nineteenth Virginia, Col. Henry Gantt, Lieut. Col. John T. 

Ellis. 
Twenty-eighth Virginia, Col. W. D. Stuart, Lieut. Col. P. I'. 
Slaughter. 

Kemper's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. J. L. Kemper. 
Col. Joseph Mayo. 
First Virginia, Col. Lewis B. WiUiams, Lieut. Col. F. G. Skin- 
ner. 
Third Virginia, Col. Joseph Mayo, Jr., Lieut. Col. A. D. Call- 
cote. 
Seventh Virginia, Col. W. T. Patton, Lieut. Col. C. C. Flow- 

erree. 
Eleventh Virginia, Maj. Kirk wood Otey. 
Twenty-fourth Virginia. Col. William R. Terry. 



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i 

Armtstead' s Brigade. > 

Brig. Gen. L. A. Armistead. j 

Col. W. R. Aylett. i 

Ninth Virginia, Maj. John C. Owens. : 

Fourteenth Virginia, Col. James G. Hodges, Lieut. Col. Wil- 
liam White. 1 

Thirty-eighth Virginia, Col. E. C. Edmonds, Lieut. Col. P. B. ' 

Whittel. ; 

Fifty-third Virginia, Col. W. R. Aylett. 

Fifty-seventh Virginia, Col. John Bowie Magruder. ' 

•i 
( 

I 
ARTILLERY. j 

Maj. James Bearing. , 

Fauquier (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. R. M. Stribling. | 

Hampden (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. W. H. Caskie. j 

Richmond Fayette Artillery, Capt. M. C. Macon. ; 

Virginia Battery, Capt. Joseph G. Blount. i 

HOOD'S DIVISION. i 

Maj. Gen. John B. Hood. j 

Brig. Gen. E. M. Law. > 

.1 

i 

Lazv's Brigade. \ 

Brig. Gen. E. M. Law. j 

Col. Tames L. Sheffield. \ 

\ 
Fourth Alabama, Lieut. Col. L. H. Scruggs. j 

Fifteenth Alabama, Col. William C Oats, Capt. B. A. Hill. 

Forty-fourth Alabama, Col. William F. Perry. | 

Forty-seventh Alabama, Col. James W. Jackson, Lieut. Col. 

M. J. Bulger, Maj. J. M. Campbell. 
Forty-eighth Alabama, Col. James L. Sheffield, Capt. T. J. 

Ewbanks. 



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Anderson's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. George T. Anderson. 
Seventh Georgia, Col. W. W. White. 
Eighth Georgia, Col. John R. Towers. 
Ninth Georgia, Lieut. Col. John C. Mounger, Maj. W. M. 

Jones, Capt. George Hillyer. 
Eleventh Georgia, Col. F. H. Little, Lieut. Col, William Luff- 
man, Maj. Henry D. McDaniel, Capt. Wilham H. Mitchell. 
Fifty-ninth Georgia, Col. Jack Brown, Capt. M. G. Bass. 

Robertson's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. J. B. Robertson. 
Third Arkansas, Col. V. H. Manning, Lieut. Col. R. S. Tay- 
lor. 
First Texas, Lieut. Col. P. A. Work. 
Fourth Texas, Col. J. C. G. Key, Maj. J. P. Bane. 
Fifth Texas, Col. R. M. Powell, Lieut. Col. K. Bryan, Maj. 
J. C. Rogers. 

Benning's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning. 

Second Georgia, Lieut. Col. Wilham T. Harris, Maj. W. S. 

Shepherd. 
Fifteenth Georgia, Col. D. M. DuBose. 
Seventeenth Georgia, Col. W. C. Hodges. 
Twentieth Georgia, Col. John A. Jones, Lieut. Col. J. D. Wad- 
dell. 

ARTILLERY. 
Maj. M. W. Henry. 
Branch (North Carolina) Artillery, Capt. A. C. Latham. 
Gorman (South Carolina) Artillery, Capt. William K. Dach- 
man. 



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Palmetto (South Carolina) Light Artillery, Capt. Hugh R. 

Garden. 
Rowan (North Carolina) Artillery), Capt. James Reilly. 

ARTILLERY RESERVE. 
Col. J. B. Walton. 

Alexander's Battalion. 

Col. E. p. Alexander. 

Ashland (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. P. Wolfolk, Jr., Lieut. 

James Wolfolk. 
Bedford (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. T. C. Jordan. 
Brooks (South Carolina) Artillery, Lieut. S. C. Gilbert. 
Madison (Louisiana) Light Artillery, Capt. George V. Moody, 
Virginia Battery, Capt. W. W. Parker. 
Virginia Battery, Capt. O. B. Taylor. 

Washington (Louisiana) Artillery. 
Maj. B. F. Eshelman. 
First Company, Capt. C. W. Squires. 
Second Company, Capt. J. B. Richardson. 
Third Company, Capt. M. B. Miller. 
Fourth Company, Capt. Joe Norcom, Lieut. H. A. Battels. 

SECOND ARMY CORPS. 

Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell. 

Escort. 
Randolph's Company Virginia Cavalry, Capt. William F. Ran- 
dolph. 

EARLY'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early. 



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Hay's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays. 
Fifth Louisiana, Maj. Alexander Hart, Capt. T. H. Biscoe. 
Sixth Louisiana, Lieut. Col. Joseph Hanlon. 
Seventh Louisiana, Col. D. B. Penn. 
Eighth Louisiana, Col. T. D. Lewis, Lieut. Col. A. de Blane. 

Maj. G. A. Lester. 
Ninth Louisiana, Col. Leroy A. Stafford. 

Hoke's Brigade. 

Col. Isaac E. Avery. 

Col. a. C. Godwin. 
Sixth North Carolina, Maj. S. McD. Tate. 
Twenty-first North Carolina, Col. W. W. Kirkland. 
Fifty-seventh North Carolina, Col. A. C. Godwin. 

Smith's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. William Smith. 
Thirty-first Virginia, Col. John S. Hoffman. 
Forty-ninth Virginia, Lieut. Col. J. Catlett Gibson. 
Fifty-second Virginia, Lieut. Col. James H. Skinner. 

Gordon's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. J. B. Gordon. 
Thirteenth Georgia, Col. James M. Smith. 
Twenty-sixth Georgia, Col. E. N. Atkinson. 
Thirty-first Georgia, Col. Clement A. Evans. 
Thirty-eighth Georgia, Capt. William L. McLeod. 
Sixtieth Georgia, Capt. W. B. Jones. 
Sixty-first Georgia, Col. John H. Lamar. 

ARTILLERY. 

Lieut. Col. H. P. Jones. 
Charlottesville (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. James McD. Car- 
rington. 



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Courtney (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. W. A. Tanner. 
Louisiana Guard Artillery, Capt. C. A. Green. 
Staunton (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. A. W. Garber. 

JOHNSON'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson. 

Steuarfs Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. George H. Steuart. 

First Maryland Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. J. R. Herbert, 

Maj. W. W. Goldsborough, Capt. J. P. Crane. 
First North Carolina, Lieut. Col. H. A. Brown. 
Third North Carolina, Maj. W. M. Parsley. 
Tenth Virginia, Col. E. T. H. Warren. 
Twenty-second Virginia, Lieut. Col. S. T. Walton. 
Thirty-seventh Virginia, Maj. H. C. Wood. 

Stonewall's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. James A. Walker. 
Second Virginia, Col. J. O. A. Nadenbousch. 
Fourth Virginia, Maj. William Terry. 
Fifth Virginia, Col. J. H. S. Funk. 
Twenty-seventh Virginia, Lieut. Col. D. M. Shriver. 
Thirty-third Virginia, Capt. J. B. Golladay. 

NicholVs Brigade. 
CoL. J. M. Williams. 
First Louisiana, Capt. E. D. Willetts. 
Second Louisiana, Lieut. Col. R. E. Burke. 
Tenth Louisiana, Maj. T. N. Powell. 
Fourteenth Louisiana, Lieut. Col. David Zable. 
Fifteenth Louisiana, Maj. Andrew Brady. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 85 

Jones's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. John M. Jones. 

Lieut. Col. R. H. Dungan. 

Twenty-first Virginia, Capt. W. P. Mosely. 

Twenty-fifth Virginia, Col. J. C. Higginbotham, Lieut. Col. 

J. A. Robinson. 
Forty-second Virginia, Lieut. Col. R. W. Withers, Capt. S. H. 

Sanders. 
Forty- fourth Virginia, Maj. N. Cobb, Capt. T. R. Buckner. 
Forty-eight Virginia, Lieut. Col. R. H. Dungan, Maj. Oscar 

White. 
Fiftieth Virginia, Lieut. Col. L. H. N. Sayler. 

ARTILLERY. 
Maj. J. W. Latiner. 
Capt. C. L Raine. 
First Maryland Battery, Capt. William F. Dement. 
Alleghany (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. J. C. Carpenter. 
Chesapeake (Maryland) Artillery, Capt. William D. Brown. 
Lee (Virginia) Battery, Capt. C. L Raine, Lieut. William W. 
Harwick. 

RODES'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. R. E. Rodes. 

Daniels's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Junius Daniels. 
Thirty-second North Carolina, Col. E. C. Brabble. 
Forty-third North Carolina, Col. T. S. Kenan, Lieut. Col. W. 

G. Lewis. 
Forty-fifth North Carolina, Lieut. Col. S. H. Boyd, Maj. John 

R. Winston, Capt, A. H. Gallaway, Capt. J. A. Hopkins. 
Fifty-third North Carolina, Col. W. A. Owens. 
Second North Carolina, Battalion, Lieut. Col. H. L. Andrews. 

Capt. Van Brown. 



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Doles' s Brigade. 

Brig. Gen, George Doles. 

Fourth Georgia, Lieut. Col. D. R. E. Winn, Maj. W. H. 

Willis. 
Twelfth Georgia, Sol. Edward Willis. 
Twenty-first Georgia, Col. John T. Mercer. 
Forty- fourth Georgia, Col. S. P. Lumpkin, Maj. W. H. Pee- 
bles. 

Iverson's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson. 
Fifth North Carolina, Capt. Speight B. West, Capt. Benja- 
min Robinson. 
Twelfth North Carolina, Lieut. Col. W. S. Davis. 
Twentieth North Carolina, Lieut. Col. Nelson Slough, Capt. 

Lewis T. Hicks. 
Twenty-third North CaroHna, Col. D. H. Christie, Capt. Wil- 
liam H. Johnson. 

Ramseur's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. S. D. Ramseur. 

Second North Carolina, Maj. D. W. Hurtt, Capt. James T. 

Scales. 
Fourth North Carolina, Col. Bryan Grimes. 
Fourteenth North Carolina, Col. R. Tyler Bennett, Maj. Jo- 
seph H. Lambeth. 
Thirtieth North Carolina, Col. Francis M. Parker, Maj. W 
W. Sillers. 

O'Neal's Brigade. 
CoL. E. A. O'Neal. 
Third Alabama, Col. C. A. Battle. 
Fifth Alabama, Col. J. H. Hall. 

Sixth Alabama, Col. J. N. Lightfoot, Capt. L. M. Bowie. 
Twelfth Alabama. Col. S. B. Pickens. 
Twenty-sixth Alabama, Lieut. Col. John C. Goodgame. 



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ARTILLERY. 
Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Carter. 
Jeff Davis (Alabama) Artillery, Capt. W. J. Reese. 
King William (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. W. P. Carter. 
Morris (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. R. C. M. Page. 
Orange (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. C. W. Fry. 

ARTILLERY RESERVE. 
Col. J. Thompson Brown. 

First Virginia Artillery. 
Capt. Willis J. Dance. 
Second Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, Capt. David Wat- 
son. 
Third Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, Capt. B. H. Smith, 

Jr. 
Powhatan (Virginia) Artillery, Lieut. John M. Cunningham. 
Rickbridge (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. A. Graham. 
Salem (Virginia) Artillery, Lieut. C. B. Griffin. 

Nelson's Battalion. 
Lieut. Col. William Nelson. 
Amherst (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. T. J. Kirkpatrick. 
Fluvanna (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. T. L. Massie. 
Georgia Battery, Capt. John Milledge, Jr. 

THIRD ARMY CORPS. 
Lieut. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill. 

ANDERSON'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. R. H. Anderson. 

Wilcox's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox. 
Eighth Alabama, Lieut. Col. Hilary A. Herbert. 



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s. 

Ninth Alabama, Capt. J. H. King. 

Tenth Alabama, Col. William H. Forney, Lieut. Col. James E. 

Shelley, 
Eleventh Alabama, Col. J. C. C. Sanders, Lieut. Col. George E. 

Tayloe. 
Fourteenth Alabama, Col. L. Pinckard, Lieut. Col. James A. 

Broome. 

Mahone's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. William Mahone. 
Sixth Virginia, Col. George T. Rogers. 
Twelfth Virginia, Col. D. A. Weisiger. 
Sixteenth Virginia, Col. Joseph H. Ham. 
Forty-first Virginia, Col. William A. Parham. 
Sixty-first Virginia, Col. V. D. Groner. 

Wright's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. A. R. Wright. 

Col. William Gibson. 

Brig. Gen. A. R. Wright. 

Third Georgia, Col. E. J. Walker. 

Twenty-second Georgia, Col. Joseph Wadsen, Capt. B. C. Mc- 

Curry. 
Forty-eighth Georgia, Col. William Gibson, Capt. R. M. Hall, 

Col. William Gibson. 
Second Georgia Battalion, Maj. George W. Ross, Capt. 
Charles J. Moffett. 

Perry's Brigade. 
Col. David Lang. 

Second Florida, Maj. W. R. Moore. 
Fifth Florida, Capt. R. N. Gardner. 
Eighth Florida, Col. David Lang. 



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Posey's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Carnot Posey. 
Twelfth Mississippi, Col. W. H. Taylor. 
Sixteenth Mississippi, Col. Samuel E. Baker. 
Nineteenth Mississippi, Col. N. H. Harris. 
Forty-eighth Mississippi, Col. Joseph M. Jayne. 

Artillery (Sumpter) Battalion. 
Maj. John Lane. 
Company A, Capt. Hugh M. Ross. 
Company B, Capt. George M. Patterson. 
Company C, Capt. John T. Wingfield. 

HETH'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. Henry Heth. 
Brig. Gen. J. J. Pettigrew. 

First Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. J. J. Pettigrew. 
Col. J. J. Marshall. 
Eleventh North Carolina, Col. Collett Leaventhorp. 
Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Col. Henry K. Burgwyn, Capt. 

H. C. Albright. 
Forty-seventh North Carolina, Col. G. H. Faribault. 
Fifty-second North Carolina, Col. J. K. Marshall, Lieut. Col. 
Marcus A. Parks, 

Second Brigade. 
CoL. J. M. Brockenbrough. 
Fortieth Virginia, Capt. T. E. Betts, Capt. R. B. Davis. 
Forty-seventh Virginia, Col. Robert M. Mayo. 
Fifty-fifth Virginia, Col. W. S. Christian. 
Twenty-second Virginia Battalion, Maj. John S. Bowles. 



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s. 

Third Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. James J. Archer. 

Col. B. D. Fry. 

Lieut. Col. S. G. Shepard. 
Thirteenth Alabama, Col. B. D. Fry. 
Fifth Alabama Battalion, Maj. A. S. Van de Graaff. 
First Tennessee (Provisional Army), Maj. Felix G. Buchanan. 
Seventh Tennessee, Lieut. Col. S. G. Shepard. 
Fourteenth Tennessee, Capt. B. L. Phillips. 

Fourth Brigade. 
Second Mississippi, Col. J. M. Stone. 
Eleventh Mississippi, Col. F. M. Green. 
Forty-second Mississippi, Col. H. R. Miller. 
Fifty-fifth North Carolina, Col. J. K. Connally, 

ARTILLERY. 
Lieut. Col. John J. Garnett. 
Donaldsonville (Louisiana) Artillery, Capt. V. Maurin. 
Huger (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. Joseph D. Moore. 
Lewis (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. John W. Lewis. 
Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, Capt. C. R. Grady. 

PENDER'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. William D. Pender. 
Brig. Gen. James H. Lane. 
Maj. Gen. I. R. Trimble. 
Brig. Gen. James H. Lane. 

First Brigade. 
CoL. Abner Perrin. 
First South Caroline (Provisional Army), Maj. C. W. Mc- 

Creary. 
First South Carolina Rifles, Capt. William M. Hadden. 



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Twelfth South CaroHna, Col. John L. Miller. 
Thirteenth South Carolina, Lieut. Col. B. T. Brockman. 
Fourteenth South Carolina, Lieut. Col. Joseph N. Brown. 

Second Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. James H. Lane. 
Col. C. M. Avery. 
Brig. Gen. James H. Lane. 
Col. C. M. Avery. 
Seventh North Carolina, Capt. J. McLeod Turner, Capt. James 

G. Harris. 
Eighteenth North Carolina, Col. John D. Barry. 
Twenty-eighth North Carolina, Col. S. D. Lowe, Lieut. Col. 

W. H. A. Speer. 
Thirty-third North Carolina, Col. C. M. Avery. 
Thirty-seventh North Carolina, Col. W. M. Barbour. 

Third Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Edward L. Thomas. 
Fourteenth Georgia. 
Thirty-fifth Georgia. 
Forty-fifth Georgia, Col. S. T. Player, 

Fourth Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. A. M. Scales. 
Lieut. Col. G. T. Gordon. 
Col. W. Lee J. Lowrance. 
Thirteenth North Carolina, Col. J. H. Hyman, Lieut. Col. H. 

A. Rogers. 
Sixteenth North Carolina, Capt. L. W. Stone. 
Twenty-second North Carolina, Col. James Conner. 
Thirty-fourth North Carolina, Col. William Lee J. Lowrance. 

Lieut. Col. G. T. Gordon. 
Thirty-eighth North Carolina, Col. W. J. Hoke, Lieut. Col. 
John Ash ford. 



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ARTILLERY. 
Maj. William T. Poague. 
Albemarle (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. James W. Wyatt. 
Charlotte (North Carolina) Artillery, Capt. Joseph Graham. 
Madison (Mississippi Light) Artillery, Capt. George Ward. 
Virginia Battery, Capt. J. V. Brooke. 

ARTILLERY RESERVE. 
Col. R. Lindsay Walker. 

Mcintosh's Battalion. 
Maj. D. G. McIntosh. 
Danville (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. R. S. Rice. 
Hardaway (Alabama) Artillery, Capt. W. B. Burt. 
Second Rockbridge (Virginia) Artillery, Lieut. Samuel Wal- 
lace. 
Virginia Battery, Capt. M. Johnson. 

Pegram's Battalion. 
Maj. W. J. Pegram. 
Capt. E. B. Brunson. 
Crenshaw (Virginia) Battery. 

Fredricksburg (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. E. A. Marye. 
Letcher (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. T. A. Brander. 
Pee Dee (South Carolina) Artillery, Lieut. William E. Zim- 
merman. 
Purcell (Virginia) Artillery, Capt. Joseph McGraw. 

CAVALRY. 

STUART'S DIVISION. 
Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. 



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Hampton's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton. 

Col. L. S. Baker. 
First North Carolina, Col. L. S. Baker. 
First South Carolina. 
Second South Carolina. 
Cobb's (Georgia) Legion. 
Jeff Davis Legion. 
Phillips (Georgia) Legion. 

Fitz Lee's Brigade. 

Brig. Gen. Fitz Lee. 

First Maryland Battalion, Maj. Harry Gilmore, Maj. Ridgely 

Brown. 
First Virginia, Col. James H. Drake. 
Second Virginia, Col. T. T. Munford. 
Third Virginia, Col. Thomas H. Owen. 
Fourth Virginia, Col. William C. Wickham. 
Fifth Virginia, Col. T. L. Rosser. 

Robertson's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. Beverly H. Robertson. 
Fourth North Carolina, Col. D. D. Ferebee. 
Fifth North Carolina. 

Jones's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. William E. Jones. 
Sixth Virginia, Maj. C. E. Flourney. 
Seventh Virginia, Lieut. Col. Thomas Marshall. 
Eleventh Virginia, Col. L. L. Lomax. 

Jenkins's Brigade. 
Brig. Gen. A. G. Jenkins. 
Col. M. J. Ferguson. 
Fourteenth Virginia. 



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Sixteenth Virginia. 

Seventeenth Virginia. 

Thirty-fourth Virginia BattaHon, Lieut. Col. V. A. Wicher. 

Thirty-sixth Virginia BattaHon. 

Jackson's (Virginia) Battery), Capt. Thomas E. Jackson. 

W. H. F. Lee's Brigade. 
Col. J. R. Chambliss, Jr. 
Second North CaroHna. 
Ninth Virginia, Col. R. L. T. Beale. 
Tenth Virginia, Col. J. Lucius Davis. 
Thirteenth Virginia. 

STUART HORSE ARTILLERY. 
Maj. R. F. Beckham. 
Breathed's (Virginia) Battery, Capt. James Breathed. 
Chew's (Virginia) Battery, Capt. R. P. Chew. 
Griffin's (Maryland) Battery, Capt. W. H. Griffin. 
Hart's (South Carolina) Battery, Capt. J. F. Hart. 
McGregor's (Virginia) Battery, Capt. W. M. McGregor. 
Moorman's (Virginia) Battery, Capt. M. N. Moorman. 

IMBODEN'S COMMAND. 

Brig. Gen. J. D. Imboden. 
Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry, Col. George W. Imboden. 
Sixty-second Virginia Infantry, Col. George H. Smith. 
Virginian Partisan Rangers, Capt. John H. McNeill. 
Virginia Battery, Capt. J. H. McClannahan. 

ARTILLERY. 
Brig. Gen. W. N. Pendleton. 




COLONEL JOHN COONS 



'ommander Fourteenth Itrliana Infantry at Gettysburg. Killed leading 
his regiment at Battle of Wilderness, May 12, 1S64 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 95 



CHAPTER V. 



The regiments from Indiana, and forming part of the 
Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg, as will be 
noted, were the Seventh, Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, 
and Twenty-seventh Infantry, two companies of the First and 
six companies of the Third Cavalry. This was so because 
these troops were all ready for the field prior to the first of 
September, 1861. About that date a great department for 
the operation of Northern armies was organized south of the 
Ohio River. From that time all military organizations raised 
west of the Alleghany Mountains, and particularly in Indiana, 
were sent into this new department. The Third Cavalry con- 
sisted of twelve companies, but six of those companies were not 
ready for the field until after September i, 1861, and when 
ready to go to the field were sent into this new department, 
and never saw the men constituting the eastern wing of the 
regiment until they met in regimental reunions after the war 
was over. Companies I and K of the First Cavalry were the 
first cavalry companies raised in Indiana, and went to the field 
in July, 1 86 1. What is now West Virginia was then the seat 
of war, and these companies found their way there, and were 
never brought back to the main body of their regiment, which 
performed all of its services in the west. The Seventh, Four- 
teenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-seventh Infantry 
all found their way into the eastern army prior to September i, 
1 86 1, and only one of those regiments, the Twenty-seventh 
Infantry, ever saw service in the western army, which was 
sent west, when the Twelfth corps, of which it was a part, and 
the Eleventh corps, were transferred to the west after the 



96 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

Battle of Gettysburg. The Seventh Infantry had served in 
the three-months service in West Virginia, under Colonel 
Ebenezer Dumont, and at once reorganized for the three- 
years service under the same commander, and was back in 
Virginia before the organization of the new western depart- 
ment, and its movements were on eastward from the time 
it returned to Virginia. Its first coloned was made a Briga- 
dier General of Volunteers, and James Gavin became its col- 
onel on the 3d of November, 1861, and held that rank until the 
27th of April, 1863, when he left the service by reason of 
wounds received at the second battle of Bull Run, in August. 
1862. After Colonel Gavin's retirement, Ira Grover was 
mustered as colonel of the regiment June 5, 1863, and was 
mustered out September 20, 1864, by reason of expiration of 
his term of service. Colonel Grover was captured in the Bat- 
tle of the Wilderness on the 6th of May, 1864, and was not 
exchanged until the 12th of September, 1864. The term of 
service of the regiment expired September 6, 1864, and the 
men entitled to discharge were sent home. The recruits and 
veterans, 107 in numbei, were temporarily assigned to the 
Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. In the three-years service, 1,299 
men were connected with the regiment, and 1 1 commissioned 
officers, and 201 non-commissioned officers and men died 
in the service. Eight commissioned officers, and 108 non- 
commissioned officers and men were killed in action. Nine- 
teen officers, and 349 non-commissioned officers and men 
were wounded in action. Major Merit C. Welch commanded 
the regiment from the date of the capture of Colonel Grover 
until its term of service expired. 

The Fourteenth Indiana Infantry was organized for the 
one-year service in May, 1861. A few days later the Presi- 
dent issued his proclamation for three-year volunteers, and 
the men of the Fourteenth voted unanimously for muster into 
the three-years service, and were so mustered on the 7th of 




LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALOIS O. BACHMAN 



Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. Killed leading his regiment at the Battle 
of Antietam, September IT, 1862 




COLONEL SAMUEL J. WILLIAMS 



Commander Nineteenth Indiana at Gettysburg and killed in Battle of 
Wilderness, May 6, 1864 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 97 

June, 1 86 1, and on the 5th of July, 1861, started to West 
Virginia, and from that time on, Hke the Seventh, its move- 
ment was eastward, and the regiment never saw service in the 
west. Nathan Kimball, of Loogootee, Indiana, who had been 
a captain in the Second Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican 
War, was the first colonel of the regiment, and its first en- 
gagement was at Rich Mountain on August 14, 1861. Col- 
onel Kimball was commissioned Brigadier General on the 
15th of April, 1862, and William Harrow was mustered as 
colonel of the regiment April 26, 1862, and resigned July 29, 

1862, but was re-commissioned as colonel of the same regi- 
ment August 23, 1862. Colonel Harrow was appointed Brig- 
adier General November 29, 1862, and on the 22d of January, 

1863, John Coons was commissioned colonel of the regiment. 
Colonel Coons served as such until the 12th of May, 1864, 
when he was killed at the battle of Spottsylvania. From this 
time on, until its final muster out of the service, on the 6th of 
June, 1864, the regiment was commanded successively by Cap- 
tain Nathan Willard, Captain William Donaldson, and Cap- 
tain William H. Patterson. The regiment was in line of bat- 
tle at Cold Harbor, when its term expired, and had already lost 
five men killed and eleven wounded in that action when ordered 
to the rear for muster out of service. One hundred and twen- 
ty-five men were discharged at this time by reason of expira- 
tion of term of service, and 59 recruits and veterans, under 
Sergeant William Cole, were consolidated with the Twentieth 
Indiana Volunteers. The total enrollment of the regiment 
from first to last was 1,134 officers and men. Of this num- 
ber 150 were killed in action, or died of wounds received in 
action, and 442 were wounded, making a total killed and 
wounded in the regiment of 502 men. Colonel John Coons, 
who was killed at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, had com- 
manded the regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg. 

The Nineteenth Indiana Infantry was mustered into the 



98 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

service of the United States on the 29th day of July, 1861, 
at Camp Morton, with Solomon Meredith as colonel. The 
regiment left Indianapolis on the 5th of August, 1861, and 
arrived at Washington, D. C, on the 9th of the same month. 
From the time it reached its destination the regiment was in 
active service, but its most arduous service began with the 
Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. Colonel Mere- 
dith was promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers October 
6, 1862, and Samuel J. Williams was mustered as colonel of 
the regiment on the 8th of October, 1862, and held that rank 
until he was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, on the 6th 
day of May, 1864. Colonel Williams commanded the regi- 
ment at the Battle of Gettysburg, where on the first day of the 
battle, it lost 210 men killed, wounded and missing, out of 288 
men and officers taken into action. Major Isaac M. May, of 
the regiment, was killed in action at Gainsville, Virginia, Au- 
gust 28, 1862, and Lieutenant-Colonel Alois O. Backman was 
killed leading a charge of the regiment at the Battle of Antie- 
tam, September 17, 1862. On the death of Colonel Williams 
Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Lidley took command of the 
regiment, which he held during the months of May, June, July 
and August, and until the command reached Petersburg. On 
the 1 8th day of August, 1864, Captain William Orr, of Com- 
pany K, was mustered as major and assumed command of 
the regiment on the 31st of August. The term of service of 
the regiment expired September 7, 1864, and the men entitled 
to muster out were sent home. One hundred and seven men 
whose term of service had not expired, were temporarily as- 
signed to the Seventh Indiana Infantry. On the i8th of Oc- 
tober these men were consolidated with the Twentieth Indi- 
ana Volunteers, and Major William Orr, of the Nineteenth, 
became colonel of the Twentieth as reorganized. 

Colonel John M. Lidley was mustered out of the service 
on this last consolidation. 




COLONEL WILT>IAM L. BROWN, Twentieth Indiana Infantry 
Killed at head of his regiment. August 24. 1862, at Chantilly, Va. 



I 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 99 

When the Nineteenth Indiana went into the field it num- 
bered 1,194 men, field, staff line, and enlisted men, and the re- 
cruits received while in the field raised the number of men 
connected with the regiment to 1,246 men. On the 20th of 
July, 1864, 102 men were mustered out of the service, whose 
term had expired. When consolidated with the Twentieth In- 
diana the regiment numbered 303 men and officers, of which 
number 107 were men received from the Seventh Indiana. 
Three field officers of the regiment were killed in action, 
namely. Major May, Lieutenant-Colonel Bachman, and Col- 
onel Samuel J. WilHams. 

The Twentieth Indiana Infantry was organized at Lafay- 
ette, Indiana, in the month of July, 1861, and was mustered 
into the three-years service on the 22d of July of that year, 
and at once sent to near Baltimore, and later went to Hat- 
teras Inlet, North Carolina. From there it joined the Army 
of the Potomac at Norfolk, in May, 1862, and from that 
time on was one of the great fighting regiments of the Army 
of the Potomac in all of its campaigns up to the end of the war 
at Appomattox. Its first colonel was William L. Brown, who 
was mustered into the service July 22, 1861. He commanded 
the regiment until he was killed at the Battle of Manassas 
Plains, on the 24th of August, 1862. Of him, his brigade 
commander, General John C. Robinson, said : "It was here 
that m)^ Twentieth Indiana lost their brave colonel, William L. 
Brown, who fell while gallantly leading his regiment. The 
loss of this gallant officer and true patriot is irreparable." 
And of him. in a report he did not live to sign, the brave gen- 
eral, Phil Kearney, who fell at Chantilly, said : "The loss of 
officers has been great; that of Colonel Brown can hardly be 
replaced. Brave, skillful, a disciplinarian, full of energy, and 
a charming gentleman, his Twentieth Indiana must miss him. 
The country loses in him one who promised to fill worthily 
high trust." John Van Valkenburg became colonel of the 



lOO INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 

regiment on December 7, 1862, and was dismissed from the 
service February 10, 1863. On March 16, 1863, John Wheeler 
was made colonel of the regiment. He commanded the regi- 
ment until he was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, on the 
second day of July, 1863. He fell in the Peach orchard, and 
of him his brigade commander, General Ward, said : "A more 
gallant soldier and efficient officer did not exist. The great 
State of Indiana may well feel proud of John Wheeler, the 
patriot and honest man. He was worthy to command the 
glorious Twentieth, and his command was proud of him." 
William C. L. Taylor succeeded to the command of the regi- 
ment, being mustered as colonel on the 3d of July, 1863. He 
continued in command until the 5th of October, 1864, when he 
was mustered out of the service. George W. Meikel, the lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the regiment, was killed before Petersburg on 
the loth of September, 1864. On the i8th of October, 1864, 
the Twentieth Indiana having absorbed the undischarged men 
of the Seventh, Fourteenth and Nineteenth Indiana, was re- 
organized, and William Orr became colonel, and was mus- 
tered out of the service May 15, 1865. The Twentieth Indiana 
went to the field with 42 commissioned officers, 29 non-com- 
missioned officers, and 980 men. It received 377 recruits, and 
282 re-enlisted men. Thirteen commissioned officers and 215 
non-commissioned officers and men died. As reorganized, in 
October, 1864, it numbered 38 commissioned officers, 13 orig- 
inal non-commissioned officers, 855 men, and received 2y re- 
cruits. It was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 
I2th of July, 1865, with 390 men, and 23 officers present for 
duty. At Gettysburg it lost 152 officers and men killed and 
wounded. Its last engagement with the enemy was at Clover 
Hill, on the 9th of April, 1865. At the Battle of the Orchards, 
in the Peninsular campaign, the regiment lost 144 officers and 
men killed, wounded and missing, on the 25th of June, 1862. 
Its loss the 5th and 7th of May, 1864, at the Battle of the 




COLONEL JOHN WHEELER 

Killed in command of Twentieth Indiana Infantrv at Gettysburg 
July 2. IStiS 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 lOI 

Wilderness, was 19 men killed, 4 officers and 98 men wounded 
and 3 missing, 124 men in all. At Spottsylvania, May 8-21, 
its loss was I officer and 9 men killed, i officer and 41 men 
wounded, i officer and 8 men missing, 62 in all. From May 
22 to June I its loss was 2 men killed, i officer and 12 men 
wounded, and 8 missing, 23 in all. From June 15 to June 30, 
1864, its loss was 5 men killed, 2 officers and 42 men wounded, 
49 in all. Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Meikel was com- 
manding the Twentieth in the trenches before Petersburg on 
the loth of September, 1864, when he was killed. 

The Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry was mustered into 
the service of the United States on the 12th of September, 
1861, and on the fifteenth of that month the regiment left In- 
dianapolis for Washington. Silas Colgrove was the only 
colonel the regiment ever had. He was mustered into the 
service with the regiment on the 12th of September, 1861, and 
was mustered out December 30, 1864, by reason of expiration 
of his term of service. He was breveted Brigadier General of 
Volunteers August 7, 1864. He commanded the brigade to 
which his regiment was attached, and Lieutenant-Colonel John 
R. Fesler commanded the regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, 
and on the third day of that battle the regiment lost no men in 
a short time. The regiment was engaged in the second Battle 
of Winchester on the 23d day of March, 1862, at Cedar Moun- 
tain August 9, 1862, Antietam September 17, 1862, and Chan- 
cellorsville May i, 1863, and Gettysburg July i, 2, 3, 1863. 
After the Battle of Gettysburg, the Twelfth Army Corps, of 
which it formed a part, and the Eleventh Army Corps were 
transferred to the Western army, and its service there was in 
the various battles of the Atlanta campaign, and on the ist of 
September, 1864, at the Chattahoochee River, the men who had 
served three years, were mustered out of the service. On the 
4th of November, 1864, the remnant of the regiment, including 
veterans and recruits, numbering 240 men, were consolidated 



I02 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

with the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, and supernumerary 
officers were mustered out of the service. The men who were 
consoHdated with the Seventieth served in the campaigns 
through Georgia and the Carohnas, and on the muster out of 
the Seventieth the remnant of the Twenty-seventh was con- 
soHdated with th€ Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers, and finally 
mustered out of the service July 21, 1865, at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky. The total number of men connected with the Twenty- 
seventh Indiana was 1,322, and the number of men accounted 
for was 1,270. The number of commissioned officers who 
died in the service was 12, and the number of men and non- 
commissioned officers was 263. The number of men who re- 
enlisted as veterans was 154, and the recruits numbered 75. The 
number of men killed and mortally wounded in action was 169, 
and the number wounded in action was 527. 

The six companies of the Third Indiana Cavalry (A, B,'C, 
D, E and F) that formed a part of the Army of the Potomac 
at the Battle of Gettysburg, were mustered into the United 
States service on the 20th of August, 1861. These companies 
were originally recruited for the First Indiana Cavalry, under 
Colonel Conrad Baker, that regiment being the Twenty-eighth 
in number of Indiana troops. These companies were sent to 
Washington under Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Carter, the other 
companies of the Twenty-eighth having been sent to Missouri. 
On the 22d of October, 1861, these six companies were desig- 
nated as the Third Indiana Cavalry, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Scott Carter was named as colonel of the new regiment. That 
officer held the rank of colonel until the nth of March, 1863, 
when he resigned, and on the 12th of March, 1863, George H. 
Chapman was mustered as colonel of the regiment. He com- 
manded the regiment until the 21st of July, 1864, when he was 
promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and was subse- 
quently breveted Major General. He commanded the regiment 
at the Battle of Gettysburg, and on the first day of that battle 




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MAJOR CHARLES LEMON, Third Indiana Cavalry 
Killed in command of skirmishers at Gettysburg-, July 1, 1SG3 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 IO3 

Major Charles Lemon of the regiment was killed. The bat- 
talion participated in more than 70 cavalry battles and skir- 
mishes, and the number of men and officers connected with it 
from first to last was 605. The number of officers and men 
killed in action or died of wounds received in action was 232. 
Taken prisoners or missing, 107. Officers discharged on ac- 
count of disability from disease or wounds, 10. Enlisted men 
discharged on account of disease or wounds, 168. Thirteen 
men of the battalion died in Southern prisons, and 1 1 in An- 
dersonville. 

On the 7th of September, 1864, the men of the battalion 
whose term of service had expired, were sent home for mus- 
ter out of the service, but 189 veterans and recruits were re- 
tained in the service and made up into two companies, desig- 
nated as Companies A and B, reorganized, and continued in 
the service until after the close of the war, and one of them was 
the body guard of General Custer, and the other the body guard 
of General Chapman, at the Battle of Appomattox. 

Company I of the First Indiana Cavalry was mustered into 
the United States service on the 4th of July, 1861, with Rob- 
ert R. Stewart as captain. It was at once sent to West Vir- 
ginia and served with different commanders in that field do- 
ing escort duty. Captain Stewart was promoted to major of 
the Second Cavalry October 22, 1861, and was succeeded by 
Levi Kirtley, then by Abraham Sharra, and finally by Harmon 
S. Miller, who was the last captain of the company when it 
was mustered out of the service. 

Company K was mustered into the L'nited States service 
on the 2 1 St of July, 1861, with James R. Bracken as captain. 
It was also sent to West Virginia, and served with various 
commanders doing escort duty. Captain Bracken resigned on 
the ist of March, 1862, and Theodore Majthenyi became his 
successor and commanded the company at its final muster out 
of the service. These two companies became consolidated as a 



I04 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

squadron, and at the Battle of Gettysburg served as escort to 
Major General O. O. Howard, under Abraham Sharra as 
captain. These two companies, as a squadron, served with 
General Fremont in his valley campaign. Afterwards the 
squadron was transferred to General Sigel as his body guard, 
and participated in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 
1862. On the 9th of November, 1862, the squadron under Cap- 
tain Dahlgren, of General Sigel's staff, crossed the Rappa- 
hannock River and charged into Fredericksburg, capturing and 
getting away with more prisoners than their own number of 
men. After the Eleventh Corps was sent west the squadron 
was sent to Glymont on the lower Potomac, where it remained 
doing provost duty until after the Battle of the Wilderness. 
It joined the Army of the Potomac at White House, and re- 
mained on duty at General Meade's headquarters until the 21st 
of June, 1864, when it was finally discharged. Forty-three, 
recruits of Company K remained in service under First Lieu- 
tenant W. O. Hedrick at the headquarters of the Army of the 
Potomac until the summer of 1865, when they were mustered 
out of the service. 




COLONEL SILAS COLGROVE, Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry 
Who commanded his brigade at Gettysburg 




National ^ronunient standing on spot where President Lincoln lUlixn-ed 
the Gettysburg Oration, November 19, 1S63 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 IO5 



CHAPTER VI. 



The battlefield of Gettysburg covers an area of about three 
miles square, lying between Willoughby's Run on the west 
and Rock Creek on the east. These streams pursue a southern- 
ly course, and flow into Marsh Creek, a more considerable 
stream still further south. The western and northern portion 
of the field, including the town of Gettysburg, is broken and 
undulating farm land, upon which were located the homes of 
the pioneers, and their descendants, who came there from Ger- 
many in the first instance. The southern and eastern portion 
of the field is made up of a series of boulder and timber covered 
hills or small mountains, named in their order, as Gulp's Hill, 
Little Round Top, and Big Round Top. The latter rises about 
700 feet above sea level. This portion of the field, by reason 
of its wild and rugged formation, has never invited cultivation. 
Cemetery Ridge, beginning at the extreme southern point of 
Gettysburg, extending southward about two miles, and termi- 
nating in Little Round Top, is the dividing line between the 
tillable and untillable portions of this historic field. Along this 
ridge, from one extremity to the other, after its first day's bat- 
tle and defeat around Seminary Ridge, half a mile north of 
Gettysburg, the Army of the Potomac took up its position, 
where it successfully fought and defeated the Army of North- 
ern Virginia in the next two days' battle. The second day's 
battle was an unsuccessful assault upon the Union line termi- 
nating in Little Round Top, and the third day's battle was a 
still more desperate assault upon that portion of the same line 
terminating at the north point of Cemetery Ridge. Both as- 
saults failed, the latter ending in almost the complete annihila- 



I06 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

tion of the assaulting columns. And this latter assault was the 
virtual end of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was followed by the 
retreat of the Army of Northern Virginia, from Pennsylvania 
soil, back to the Rapidan River in Virginia. 

The Battle of Gettysburg was hailed as a victory for the 
Union by all the country interesting in saving the Union. So 
intense was this feeling, that on the 19th of November, 1863, 
a little more than four months after the battle was fought, 
President Lincoln, with the members of his cabinet, and many 
distinguished visitors from all parts of the country, went there 
for the purpose of dedicating the field to the memory of the 
men who had struggled and died there in behalf of the Union. 
And upon the spot where now stands a magnificent and costly 
monument, erected by the United States Government, Presi- 
dent Lincoln delivered the following oration, which has be- 
come a classic in the world's literature : 

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth 
upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that 
nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can 
long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final rest- 
ing place for those who here gave their lives that that nation 
might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should 
do this ; but, in a large sense, we cannot dedicate, Ave cannot 
consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men liv- 
ing and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above 
our power to add or detract. 

"The world will little note, or long remember, what we 
may say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 

"It is for us — the living — rather to be dedicated here to 
the unfinished work which the3\ who fought here, have thus 
far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be dedicated to 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 IO7 

the great task remaining before us, that from these honored 
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they 
gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly 
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this 
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and 
that government of the people, by the people, and for the peo- 
ple, shall not perish from the earth." 

From the day of the delivery of that wonderful oration, 
its spirit took possession of the people who loved this land, 
and determined that its government should be saved ; that un- 
der God, it should have a new birth of freedom, and that gov- 
ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people, should 
not perish from the earth. And, in the spirit of that oration, 
the Government of the United States has been engaged in mak- 
ing Gettysburg a historic field, in fact, and the mecca upon 
which the shrine of American liberty should be erected and 
worshiped. 

It has acquired title to much of the land upon which the 
battle was fought, and that land it has laid out and beautified 
in all the ways known to the most expert landscape artists. 
Around the magnificent monument standing upon the spot 
where President Lincoln delivered his world-famous oration, 
the Government has laid out and made attractive the most 
beautiful National cemetery on this continent, wherein are 
buried thousands of the known and unknown dead, who fought 
and died upon this field. She has constructed more than fifty 
miles of splendid macadamized roads around and over the 
field, that for fifty years have been used by thousands of peo- 
ple visiting this field so full of sacred memories. She has 
erected equestrian statues, at many points on the field, of men 
who immortalized themselves, and their country, upon that 
field. Observatories reaching skyward have been placed at 
various points on the field, to afford visitors opportunity to 
take in everything of interest upon the field. Great and cost- 



I08 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

ly monuments have been erected by the Government, and still 
greater and more magnificent by some of the states of the 
Union, and particularly by the states of Pennsylvania and 
New York, whose soldiers formed the great bulk of the army 
that fought here. But all of the states of the North, and some 
of the South, that were represented by military organizations 
in the battle, have erected monuments and markers to the 
memory of their sons who fought and died here. And for 
years have kept a commission there, consisting of two Federal 
and one Confederate officers, who participated in this battle, 
to superintend the work of caring for and beautifying this 
field. These commissioners are appointed by the President of 
the United States, and make their homes at Gettysburg. Noth- 
ing has been left undone by the Government of the United 
States to make this field one of marvelous beauty and inter- 
est. That they might not be forgotten, she has erected a mag- 
nificent shaft to the soldiers of the Regular Army that fought 
so valiantly and died so bravely upon this field. And the 
Southern states have imbibed the spirit of every lover of a re- 
stored land, and are moving in the work of marking and beau- 
tifying those portions of the field where so many of their 
heroes fought and died. They have come to realize that Gettys- 
burg is the mecca for all the Union, that their sons who fell 
there must not be forgotten. 

Indiana was represented in the Battle of Gettysburg by five 
regiments of infantry, the Seventh, the Fourteenth, the Nine- 
teenth, the Twentieth, the Twenty-seventh, and by six com- 
panies of the Third and two companies of the First Cavalry. 
All of these regiments made contribution to the roll of the 
dead in that battle, and no State has a better record for the 
gallantry of her sons in proportion to the numbers engaged. 
Two officers from Indiana, who commanded men on that field, 
Col. John Wheeler of the Twentieth Infantry, and Major 
Charles Lemon of the Third Cavalry, gave up their lives in 




LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN R. FESLER 

Twenty-seventh Indiana, who commanded his regiment at Gettysburg and 
the last surviving commander of an Indiana regiment in that battle 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 IO9 

that battle. Colonel John Coons, who commanded the Four- 
teenth Infantry, and Colonel Samuel Williams, who com- 
manded the Nineteenth Infantry at Gettysburg, fell in battle 
six days apart in the Battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864, 
at the head of their regiments. Lieutenant-Colonel John R. 
Fesler, who commanded the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry 
on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, when it lost no 
men in less than ten minutes, is the only living commander of 
a regiment from Indiana that fought at Gettysburg. 

On the 5th of March, 1885, the General Assembly of this 
State appropriated $3,000 for the erection of six markers for 
the six Indiana regiments that had fought at Gettysburg. Un- 
der the act, the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Adjutant Gen- 
eral, and five men from each regiment who were in the battle, 
were authorized to visit the field and select the site for these 
markers. The expenses of these commissioners were also paid 
when these markers were dedicated. All of these expenses 
came out of the appropriation of $3,000, and the six markers 
were paid for by what was left. They are not in keeping with 
what the Government and other states have done at Gettys- 
burg to preserve the memory of the heroes who fell there. 
Every visitor from Indiana noted this with mortification on the 
occasion of the recent anniversary. 

This commission does not regard recommendations as any 
part of its duties in this matter, but confines itself to the mere 
statement of the facts, to the end that some future General 
Assembly of our State may have a basis upon which to act 
should it feel called upon to take up the patriotic w^ork of plac- 
ing Indiana upon an even footing with other states whose sol- 
diers fought upon the field of Gettysburg. We feel that our 
conclusions will be confirmed by any disinterested commission 
that may hereafter visit the field for the purpose of ascertain- 
ing the facts in this important matter. 

Indiana highly honored itself by the joint monument the 



no INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 

State erected on the battlefield of Antietam in 1910, and by 
placing a marker at the place where each of the five Indiana 
regiments fought upon that field, and it could easily do the 
same by the erection of a joint monument at Gettysburg, at 
some agreed location, and leaving the small, inexpensive monu- 
ments or markers now there to continue to serve as markers for 
they are located upon the sites where the different regiments 
from Indiana rendered glorious service on the field of Gettys- 
burg. 

NAMES OF VETERANS WHO VISITED 
GETTYSBURG. 

Seventh Indiana. 

Robert P. Hamilton, Franklin; Richard Black, Aurora; 
Calvin Warnak, Pittsburg; McKendree Smith, Plainfield; Wil- 
liam De Moss, IndianapoHs; Andrew Kunkle, Sellersburg; 
Grandison Eaton, Brownsburg ; John Little, North Vernon ; 
William G. Stuart, Danville; John Majors, Hillsdale; John 
T. Grayson, Sharpsville; Joseph Felix, Morgantown; Joseph 
M. Dunlap, Franklin ; G. E. Gilcrist, Indianapolis ; William 
T. Roosell, Winchester; Benjamin Winsor, Versailles; Henry 
Wheeler, Willsboro ; Robert H. Chance, Dillsboro ; Robert E. 
Hall, Vevay; WiUiam H. Dugle, Rising Sun; William H. 
Pearce, Rising Sun; Adrian Shaffer, James M. Leak, Lizton; 
James M. Brown, Franklin ; Benjamin L. McFarlane, Rush- 
ville ; Mortimer A. Longwood, Rising Sun ; William H. Clark, 
Rising Sun ; James B. Connor, Kokomo ; B. F. Abrams, Indi- 
anapolis; William H. Oatman, Pleasant; Abner Hardin, Nine- 
veh; Asa M. Strong, Indianapolis; William Vincent, Vernon; 
Hiram P. Mullikin, Franklin ; George N. Hanes, Clermont ; 
Ephraim M. Herriott, Greencastle ; Lucien Tanner, Plymouth ; 
Chester F. Hall, Danville ; John Shutters. Greenwood ; Allen 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 III 

Jewell, Greensburg; Francis M. Hay, Indianapolis; James Leg- 
gett, Indianapolis; William H. Walter, Indianapolis; Augus- 
tus Hankins, Decatur; John Rork, Lawrenceburg ; Isaiah 
Griner, Fairland ; James R. Barnhill, Brownsburg ; John Mar- 
tindale, Indianapolis; Napoleon Gue, Brooklyn; Henry Thomp- 
son, Greensburg; William H. Perry, Greensburg; John W. 
Kise, Indianapolis; William A. Dales, Greensburg; John V. 
Hadley, Danville ; Thomas A. Jeffreys, Indianapolis ; Wilham 
Kennedy, Greensburg. 

Fourteenth Indiana. 

Franklin Kimberlin, New Lebanon; T. N. LoAvnsdale, St. 
Bernice; Amos Hixson, Riley; Richard H. Conalty, Mont- 
gomery ; John E. Thomas, Bowling Green ; Oscar M. Hall, In- 
dianapolis ; George M. Sparrow, Vincennes ; Elias Lloyd, Vin- 
cennes; Charles H. Myerhoff, Evansville; David Snellenber- 
ger, Frankfort ; Clayborn Clements, Loogootee ; Ezekiel D 
Hamilton, Rockville; John R. McClure, Vincennes; Andrew 
T. Massey, Bloomington; George C. Massey, Spencer; David 
E. Beem, Spencer ; Samuel Smith, Spencer ; Daniel W. Soliday, 
Worthington ; Robert McNaught, Spencer; Nathaniel D. Cox, 
Spencer; Granville B. Ward, Monticello. 

Nineteenth Indiana. 

Isaiah Pruitt, Winchester; Joseph B. Bennett, Richmond; 
D. B. Dukes, Richmond; Richard T. Stott, Westport; Perry 
Miller, Yorktown; William B. Wilson, Sharpsville; Ephraim 
Bartholomew, Fairmount; Lysander D. Trent, Spencer; Joel 
B. Curtis; Richmond; Lafayette Pursley, Farmland; Robert 
I. Patterson, Muncie; S. A. Dickover, Selma; William H. 
Murray, Selma ; George W. Hester, Farmland ; Grear N. Wil- 
liams, Richmond ; A. H. Swain, LTnion City ; Jesse Jones, Rich- 



112 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I9I3 

mond; Nelson Pegg, Winchester; Benjamin F. Seaman, Dun- 
kirk ; Henry C. Marsh, Muncie ; Andrew J. Wood, Ridgeville ; 
Julius Waldschmitt, South Bend; Oliver Carmichael, Muncie; 
John W. Poland, Muncie; Charles Davis, Green Fork; John 
W. Knight, Parker; James L. Mitchell, Greenfield; Joseph 
Garrard, Sheidler ; James R. Nash, Martinsville ; Eldridge 
Anderson, Hope ; John M. Woods, Bowling Green ; Patterson 
M. Kinney, Converse ; Hiram Antibus, Bruceville ; John Mun- 
dehall, Muncie ; Enoch Adams, Markleville ; John C. Dunn, 
Franklin ; Reason McDaniel, Indianapolis ; George F. Ethel, 
Anderson ; Alonzo J. Makepeace, Anderson ; David B. Fort, 
Indianapolis; Henry Kirby, Byrant. 

Twentieth Indiana. 

Samuel C. Mintzer, Attica; John Jones, Indianapolis; 
George W. Hart, Idaville; William Emmons, Lebanon; Wil- 
Ham H. Bowen, Buck Creek; W. H. Reeves, Angola; Amos 
P. Thompson, Lowell ; Christopher Jones, Hammond ; Richard 
Imes, Westville; Michael Gick, North Manchester; Samuel F. 
Foxworthy, Knightstown ; Linneus Hawley, Thorntown ; John 
E. Luther, Crown Point; Nelson E. Miller, Warsaw; Wil- 
liam H. Richhart, Warsaw; General W. Kilgore, Plymouth; 
Cornelius Shay, Soldiers' Home, Marion; WilHam C. H. 
Reeder, Peru ; John Penrod, South Bend ; William E. Brown, 
South Bend ; Seymour Hutton, Romney ; B. H. Dillon, Rensse- 
laer ; Irvin C. Dennis, Covington ; Lemuel T. Owrig, Wingate ; 
William D. Slusser, Mellott; Michael Robinson, Medaryville; 
Solomon Replogle, Westville; John A. Crawford, Covington; 
George S. Montgomery, Rockfield; Michael GalHgan; New 
Albany; Harry Artest, Francesville. 

Third Indiana Cavalry, 

W. N. Pickerill, Indianapolis; W. G. Nash, Tipton; Fred 
G. Loffler, Indianapolis; Matthew J. Tracy, Whiteland; Fer- 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 II3 

nadez Sleeth, Fairland ; Isaac Higgins, James K. Reed, Brooks- 
burg; Thomas E. Day, Osgood; George Meuser, Madison; 
Francis M. Jackson, Patriot ; Jacob Kern, Moorefield ; David 
Kern, Canaan; William Sharp, Vevay; Rodolph Lamson, In- 
dianapoHs; James E. English; New Washington; EH Brooks, 
Noblesville; John Quirk, Marion Soldiers' Home; A. C. 
Weaver, Henry B. Weaver, Greenwood ; Alfred Stratford, In- 
dianapolis; Martin Bruce, Wilmington; Cyrus Demaree, Law- 
renceburg ; Fewell Alley, Center ; John Wiseman, Vevay ; Wil- 
liam McBaggerly, Paoli; Hudson Lamkin, Aurora; John M. 
Palmer, Indianapolis ; Eli Powell, Dillsboro ; Omar Howerton, 
Marion Soldiers' Home ; Henry B. Sparks, Rising Sun ; Henry 
Morris, Aurora. 

Twenty-seventh Indiana. 

Edmund R. Brown, Akron; Joseph D. Barber, Princeton; 
John Elliott, Martinsville; Robert L. Foster, Soldiers' Home^ 
Marion ; Elijah Smith, Martinsville ; William Doyle, Lebanon ; 
Peter Kemp, Morgantown; Perry Booker, Soldiers' Home, 
Marion ; John V. Buskirk, Gosport ; John R. Fesler, Indian- 
apolis ; Sam Simpson, Bedford ; John D. Laughlin, Odon ; J. B. 
Gambold, Coatsville; John Muster, North Vernon; John H. 
Lewis, Linton ; Lewis King, Columbus ; George W. Lawrence, 
Soldiers' Home, Marion; George W. Welch, Bloomington; 
John G. Wallace, Montgomery; William A. Callahan, Bed- 
ford ; Washington Kester, Washington ; John E. Hart, Green- 
field; William P. ElHs, Washington; Andrew J. Vest, Wash- 
ington; William Muster, Cominskey; Samuel Weaver, Wheat- 
land ; Amos Kersey, Amo ; Enoch G. Bourcourt, Walcott ; Eli- 
jah Baker, Clifford ; Theadore M. Nance, Tipton ; David Han- 
sell, Lena; Nelson Pursell, Washington; George Wonder, 
Washington ; Isaac J. Brown, New Lebanon ; Thomas J. Box, 
Bedford; Thomas J. Bruner, Spencer; Andrew Jones, Indian- 



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s. 

apolis ; Daniel Webster, Montezuma ; Enoch M. Brunei", Free- 
dom; Theadore F. Rogers, Dugger; W. W. Daugherty, In- 
dianapolis. 

First Indiana Cavalry. 

Charles H. Noble, Indianapolis; Daniel Jones, Pimento; 
William Prescott, Soldiers' Home, Marion; Newton Beals, 
Fairmount; David Denny, John D. Strain, Terre Haute. 

Ohio Veterans Living in Indiana. 

James M. Biggs, 826. Ohio, Huntington; Robert Nigh- 
swander, 55th Ohio, Claypoole; Aaron Bernheimer, 107th 
Ohio, Larwell; Benjamin C. Rockhill, 75th Ohio; Greencastle; 
Jacob Olive, 66th Ohio, Gunntown; William A. Caster, 75th 
Ohio, Portland; Thaddeus K. Miller, 6ist and 82d Ohio, An- 
gola ; D. W. McDaniels, 5th Ohio, Rushville ; George F. Weid- 
man, 86th Ohio, South Bend ; Joseph B. Oliver, 25th Ohio, 
Washington; Henry S. Finkelsteiner, 107th Ohio, Hunting- 
ton ; Levi D. Parks, 75th Ohio, Richmond ; Robert W. Elder, 
82d Ohio, Portland; Cornelius O. Hinkle, 29th Ohio, Swan- 
nington; WilHam Sowards, 55th Ohio, Tocsin; Martin V. B. 
Kerns, 66th Ohio, Topeka; Edwin W. Herrick, 29th Ohio, 
South Bend; James D. Bishop, 66th Ohio, Indianapolis; 
Charles L. Wilson, 75th Ohio, Indianapolis; Job P. Duvall, 
73d Ohio, Monon; Richard M. Freeman, 7th Ohio, Bicknell; 
Jacob Stahl, 107 Ohio, Akron; Robert Tucker, 66th Ohio, 
Sheidler; George W. Caanan, 82d Ohio, Harmony; Oscar J. 
Parkell, 29th Ohio, Laporte; Odam Keiser, 4th Ohio, Colum- 
bia City; Thomas Hallam, 82d Ohio, Auburn; John F. M. 
Strong, 55th Ohio, Auburn; John W. Myers, 6ist Ohio, In- 
dianapoHs. 



indiana at gettysburg, july, i913 ii5 

New York Veterans Living in Indiana. 

Horam B. Woolsey, I22d New York, Fort Wayne; John 
Harn, 8th New York Cavalry, Soldiers' Home, Lafayette; 
John Rider, 120th New York, Brazil; Harvey U. Pease, ist 
N. Y. Light Artillery, Indianapolis; George I. Hitchcock, 140th 
New York, Anderson ; David N. Foster, 83d New York, Fort 
Wayne; James Morris, loth New York, Crawfordsville ; Dan- 
iel D. Tompkins ; 70th New York, Greencastle ; Robert Sutton, 
72d New York, Wabash ; Earl W. Soper, 8th New York Cav- 
alry, Dunkirk; Elam R. Kenyon, 93d New York, Muncie; 
James M. Chadwick, 2d New York Cavalry, Crawfordsville; 
Owen R. Sisson, 136th New York, Soldiers' Home, Lafayette; 
John Hart, 2d New York Cavalry, Lafayette; George P. Mo- 
rey, 136th New York, South Bend; William L. Wood, 9th 
New York, Valparaiso. 

Pennsylvania Veterans Living in Indiana. 

John A. C. F. Myres, 114th Pennsylvania, Indianapolis; 
William McClelland, 139th Pennsylvania, Marion; John Fes- 
sler, 151st Pennsylvania, Indianapolis; William T. Chandler, 
30th Pennsylvania, Indianapolis; Ferdinand Koeber, 74th 
Pennsylvania, National Military Home, Marion; J. E. Ridge, 
Knappa Pennsylvania Battery, National Military Home, Ma- 
rion; Augustus H. Kantner, 151st Pennsylvania, Salamonia; 
Conrad Smith, 139th Pennsylvania, Anderson; William Heim, 
63d Pennsylvania, Indianapolis ; James Patchell, I02d Penn- 
sylvania, Union City; James P. Foltz, ist Pennsylvania Cav- 
alry, Walcott; Harry R. Tobias, ist Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
Nappannee; John Paff, 62d Pennsylvania, National Military 
Home, Marion; Jacob Fogle, i8th Pennsylvania, Rochester; 
Eugene Daugherty, 22d Pennsylvania, Washington; George 
W. Farrell, ist Pennsylvania Artillery, Goshen; Joseph J. Bar- 



Il6 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

nett, 145th Pennsylvania, Perryville; Jeremiah Eiseman, nth 
Pennsylvania, Columbia City; W. H. Fuller, 83d Pennsyl- 
vania, Hobart; Jacob Yeagle, iiith Pennsylvania, Howes; 
George W. Howenstein, 46th Pennsylvania, Albion; William 
H. H. Davis, ist Pennsylvania Artiller}^, Spencerville ; Charles 
Kehrer, 147th Pennsylvania, Redkey ; James Donley, ist Penn- 
sylvania Reserve, Konts; William Ulrich, 53d Pennsylvania, 
Elkhart ; John D. Snarley, 6th Pennsylvania, Richmond ; Wil- 
liam B. Donaldson, loth Pennsylvania, Fort Wayne; David 
Throne, 99th Pennsylvania, Indianapolis ; Amos Worrill, 3d 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Laporte ; Nicholas Eisaman, 86th Penn- 
sylvania, Columbia City; Charles L. Atwater, 6th Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry, Jonesboro ; Robert Thomas, 99th Pennsylvania, 
Indianapolis ; Jonathan W. Slear, 28th Pennsylvania, Elkhart ; 
Charles Winnemyer, nth Pennsylvania, Bridgeport; David K. 
Knoll, 151st Pennsylvania, Portland; Joseph Clark, 71st Penn- 
sylvania, Portland; Frances Jacobs, ist Pennsylvania Reserve, 
Mishawaka; Joseph D. WiUiamson, nth Pennsylvania Re- 
serve, Auburn ; Albert Boley, 63d Pennsylvania, National Mili- 
tary Home, Marion; A. H. Hernley, 23d Pennsylvania, Craw- 
fordsville; Jacob C. Roll, 62d Pennsylvania, Terre Haute; 
George M. Rumbarger, 5th Pennsylvania Resen-e, Fillmore ; 
John H. Cashdollar. I02d Pennsylvania, Muncie; William H. 
Langton, 46th Pennsylvania, Williamsport ; James H. Mitchell, 
8 1 St Pennsylvania, Lafayette; John H. Foltz, 53d Pennsyl- 
vania, Elkhart; Michael Seivers, ist Pennsylvania Light Artil- 
lery, Roanoke ; W. F. Sharer, 20th Pennsylvania, Delphi ; Dea- 
con W. Bell, 22d Pennsylvania, Indianapolis. 

Maryland Veterans. 

John Nighsvvander, ist Maryland Infantry, Warsaw; 
Thomas R. Sherfy, ist Maryland Infantry, Indianapolis; Rich- 
ard C. Jones, ist Maryland Infantry, Knightstown; William K. 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 II7 

Adams, ist E. S. Maryland, Muncie; Joseph Newmann, 13th 
Maryland, National Military Home, Marion ; William P. Mof- 
fitt, ist Maryland Infantry, Huntington; W. H. Roherback, 
ist Maryland Infantry, Sulphur Springs; S. W. H. Hissong, 
ist Maryland Infantry, National Military Home, Marion; 
George W. Toms, ist Maryland Infantry, Poneto. 

Michigan Veterans. 

Perry S. Bowers, ist Michigan Cavalry, Elkhart; Joel 
McLenithan, 3d Michigan Cavalry, North Liberty; Nathan 
Ehrmann, ist Michigan Cavalry, Mogley; Orville Carver, 4th 
Michigan Infantry, Angola; Tracy Vaughn, i6th Michigan, 
Angola ; Adelbert F. Day, 4th Michigan Infantry, Angola ; Da- 
vid Quinby, 7th Michigan Infantry, Lafayette; Charles Allen, 
4th Michigan Infantry, Fremont; George Noyes, i6th Mich- 
igan, Terre Haute; W. W. Clayburn. 4th Michigan Infantry, 
Rochester; John H. Goff, 3d Michigan Infantry, Churubusco; 
John E. Hampton, 4th Michigan Infantry, Fowler; David 
Bender, 4th Michigan Infantry; Kendallville ; EHjah H. 
Forbes, ist Michigan Artillery, South Milford ; Chancey L. 
Mann, 4th Michigan Infantry, Kendallville. 

Massachusetts Veterans. 

Daniel O. Shackley, 5th Massachusetts Infanti-y, Decatur; 
Henry S. Nichols, loth Massachusetts, Soldiers' Home, Lafay- 
ette; James E. Bacon, loth Massachusetts, New Albany; F. A. 
Buck, 33d Massachusetts, Fairmount; Thomas P. Sawyer, nth 
Massachusetts, Eaton. 

New Jersey Veterans. 

John W. Mitchell, 12th New Jersey, Lafayette; Joseph 
Duncan, ist New Jersey Cavalry, National Military Home, 



Il8 INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 

Marion; James Van Winkle, 8th New Jersey, National Mili- 
tary Home, Marion. 

Vermont Veterans. 

Charles E. Hale, 14th Vermont, Logansport; Alden C. 
Pittingil, 15th Vermont, Anderson. 

Illinois Veterans. 

Henry H. Walker, 8th Illinois Cavalry, Remington ; Alex- 
ander Buchanan, 12th Illinois Cavalry, Laporte; A. F. Robert- 
son, 8th Illinois Cavalry, Hammond. 

Maine Veteran. 
Joseph E. Haskell, 19th Maine, Indianapolis. 

Wisconsin Veteran. 
F. C. Waterman, 2d Wisconsin Infantry, Waterloo. 

Connecticut Veteran. 
George E. Wood, 14th Connecticut, National Military 
Home, Marion. 

Rhode Island Veteran. 
Charles R. Cook, 2d Rhode Island, Salem. 

United States Regulars. 

Thomas Marshall, 5th United States Cavalry, Deputy; Jo- 
seph Mohr, nth United States Infantry, Batesville; William 
Evans, nth United States Infantry, Simsburg; John Burns, 
nth United States Infantry, Indianapolis; Abraham Labar, 
5th United States Artillery, Columbus; J. W. Butler, i2tb 



INDIANA AT GETTYSBURG, JULY, I913 II9 

United States Infantry, Rowen; Michael Casper, 2d United 
States Cavalry, George Schneider, 12th United States Infan- 
try, Logansport; Jacob A. May, nth United States Infantry, 
Remington; Richard O. Meredith, nth United States Infan- 
try, Indianapolis; Lemuel Brown, 12th United States Infantry, 
Logansport; A. L. Asterhage, nth United States Infantry, 
Freelandsville ; William H. Harrison, 12th United States In- 
fantry, Logansport; J. W. Petty, nth United State Infantry, 
Indianapolis; W. H. Williams, 5th United States Cavalry, 
Lena; Michael Morrissey, 12th United States Infantry, Lo- 
gansport; John W. Kausen, 12th United States Infantry, Ful- 
ton; William Elleath, 12 United States Infantry, Veeders- 
burg; Webster R. Higgins, 6th United States Cavalry, Ko- 
komo; John Smith, nth United State Infantry, Pleasant Mills; 
Henry B. Taylor, 12th United States Infantry, National Mili- 
tary Home, Marion; Thomas A. M. Crawford, 12th United 
States Infantry, Winamac; Stephen Parker, 17th United States 
Infantry, Logansport; William R. Quillan, 6th United States 
Cavalry, Wheatland; Daniel Ryan, 13th United States Infan- 
try, Morristown, 

Confederate Veterans. 

D. A. Ray, 42d Virginia, Fairland ; Matthew T. McDaniel, 
4th Virginia, Gaston; Samuel H. Walker, 24th Virginia, 
Roachdale ; Madison Linkinhoker, 28th Virginia, Ladoga ; 
W. W. Mitchell, 2d North Carolina, Jamestown ; John McFall, 
28th Virginia, Anderson ; S. W. Strickler, Rockbridge Battery, 
Danville; Daniel Tosh, 57th Virginia, Jonesboro; William 
Garr, 7th Virginia Infantry, East Germantown; Nathan H. 
Hargrave, 45th North Carolina, Acton; Phillip Gochenour, 
5th Virginia Infantry, Rossville; T. S. Motter, 4th Alabama, 
Dayton ; W. J. Manger, 28th Virginia, Crawfordsville ; Jonas 
T. Gish, 28th Virginia, Ladoga; William G. Luzadder, 25th 



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Virginia, Redkey; William D. Grady, 5th Virginia Infantry, 
Middletown; Isaiah Sheek, 4th North Carolina, Greenwood; 
John Heppner, i8th North Carolina, IndianapoHs; A. M. Bell, 
38th North Carolina, Terra Haute; William A. Lamb, 22d 
North Carolina, Bloomington; WilHam P. Camden, nth Vir- 
ginia Cavalry, Ladoga; J. C. McMasters, 4th North Carolina 
Infantry, Fairmount; Charles E. Scholl, 35th Virginia Bat- 
tery, Camden; R. H. Hutchens, 28th North Carolina, Losant- 
ville; A. Kettermann, nth Virginia Cavalry, Parker City; 
Caleb A. Jackson, 53d North CaroHna, Kokomo; Hiram J. 
Tyree, 24th Virginia, Mitchell; Henry A. Bricker, loth Vir- 
ginia Infantry, Redkey; Ben F. Keiger, 21st North Carolina, 
Danville; E. M. Barr, 8th Virginia, South Whitley; D. A. 
Mumaw, 33d Virginia, Butler; J. A. Sheets, i8th Virginia, 
Springport; David E. Jones, 21st Georgia, Anderson; Lafay- 
ette Shepherd, 53d North Carolina, Brooklyn; David E. Rot- 
tenour, i8th Virginia, Winchester; S. R. Ayres, 2d Battery 
Virginia Artillery, Long Cliff; Albert L. Bagby, i8th Vir- 
ginia, Fort Wayne; J. W. Bell, 24th Virginia, IndianapoHs; 
Jesse Poor, i6th North Carolina, Harmony; Thomas Lorton, 
4th Virginia Infantry, New Castle; William C. Mays, Vir- 
ginia Light Artillery, Terre Haute; Edward W. Smith, 21st 
North Carolina, Brazil ; Hiram D. Jones, 4th Virginia Infan- 
try, Worthington; Benjamin Duncan, 35th Georgia, Gwynne- 
ville; J. C. Whitesell, McLennehan's Battery, Rockville; John 
F. Boothe, 2d North Carolina Infantry, Carmel ; William R. 
Lynch, 2d Georgia Infantry, Crawfordsville ; Samuel Marsh. 
22d North Carolina, Indianapolis; H. L. Rayl, 30th North 
Carolina, Bloomingdale ; Samuel A. Swing, 47th North Caro- 
lina, Kokomo; Eli P. Haymaker, nth Virginia, Franklin; 
Woodson Chandler, 12th Virginia, Middletown; Alex. B. At- 
kins, 5th C. S. A., Hazelton; Jesse V. Porter, i8th U. S., 
Goldsmith. 



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West Virginia Veterans. 

Alexander Lydy, ist West Virginia Cavalry, Craigville; 
John H. Carpenter, ist West Virginia Cavalry, Middletown; 
John Hatcher, ist West Virginia Cavalry, Jonesville; War- 
rick C. Stalnecker, 3d West Virginia Cavalry, Stockwell. 



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